Can you imagine the effect on the economy if sex work were decriminalized?

[Submissive Angel]

I agree with Stephania and Contralto. I can see the value in the 1-Hour date. However, the connection and friendships start to form with the longer dates. They are more realistic idea of what a courtesan or escort really provides. They provide companionship and a way to release from everyday tensions/stresses.

Escorting/courting is like art. There are some of The Starry Night type who are exquisite and take time to perfect the experience. Of course, there is the opposite back ceddy alley type. But it is not up to me or anyone else to define someone's experience. It is up to the person engaging to decide what it is that they are searching for! Being high end is hard for several reasons. The lack of gentlemen who can afford the higher end. The desperation of accepting any and every appointment that comes around even if it is not what the provider wants.

Back to the topic of decriminalization, it is hard for some to image why someone (man/woman) would want to engage in such risky behavior when they have yet to unleash their inner desires/needs. Therefore, people simply reationalize by attaching a stimga and declaring it bad. Therefore, it keeps themselves safe in their ideal of a moral way of living.

When it comes to states such as Oklahoma it is a religious stigma vs anything else. When it came up to decide if it should be decriminalized a house member responded by stating it was not ethical in his bible. However, say a woman who has been in trouble wants to do something different, how is she going to find fitting employment? She now has convictions for prostitution and possibly computer crimes, not sure many employers are looking for that on a resume.

[Randall Creed]

I think it would depend on how much their friends made in the business. If they saw that their girl started doing it and had a noticeable rise in income, more would do it.

"Shit, she making all this money, and I'm way finer than she is! I'm in!!"

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by Buying a *Way to Heaven

I thought you Christians hated homos? Here's your chance to punish them for growing those gross sack-tickling moustaches: let them all get married. They'll do it to themselves and thank you all the way to divorce court. Some people don't know when they've got it good.

christians don't hate homos, they just don't like their lifestyle and consider them living in sin.

no comment on the mustaches.

[Fancylady]

Originally Posted by Buying a *Way to Heaven

I do not foresee a partial legalization making any real difference. What woman is going to want to register herself as a prostitute (knowing that lists are certain to be made public sooner or later), submit to frequent testing (at her own expense) and regulation, and pay taxes - knowing that the police, the neighbors, the church fanatics, and the jealous wives are still going to harass her with all their energy, provided any loophole exists for them to do so?

I wish all states would make it Legal.Better working Illegal prostitution

[Iaintliein]

The economic effect would be minimal I think.

It would get more expensive for the consumer and less lucrative for the provider, the only thing that would change otherwise is a different set of "middlemen" getting a cut, instead of law enforcement and lawyers it would be regulators and licensing authorities.

The real plus would be giving providers easier access to the protections of the legal system. Perhaps, if this dream of decriminalization lasted a couple of generations the stigma would fade which would benefit society in general and probably cause the divorce rate to plummet (marriage rate too).

Since it's the lawyers who would be the big losers, don't look for legislatures (made up of lawyers) to do anything like this anytime soon.

[ICU 812]

Multi-Hour Sessions: The only way to go.

Well, the years have not been kind. Docs want to replace this or that joint and open up my back. Can't see to drive and need an "enhancing appliance" in each ear too.

So even eith the performance medications, I need a bit of extra time to get everything done now (for example, I take longer to sit down and get up!)

A two hour session with an Indy Provider is a must for me. The two or three hour donation is getting hard to come by on a fixed income and I settled for a couple of mediocre AMP sessions last year,

Maybe this year I'll save up enough lunch money for a real matenee date with someone nice!

[romanticgent]

Stripping is legal, yet it carries some social stigma with it. If Big Brother legalizes prostitution, I don't think every woman is gonna run to the hills, screaming "I wanna join the Brave New World!" I do think it will empower women by offering them a legal way to make some money.

Legalizing prostitution, in my humble opinion, would give the cops an opportunity to focus on other things that are a bit more important. Of course, knowing the way things are, cops would probably just end up writing more speeding tickets.

The logical extremists will say, "Well if you legalize weed, then you might as well legalize every drug!" And they will say, "If you legalize prostitution, then you might as well make every crime legal." I gotta believe that those folks have either never broken out of the matrix or they are somehow making money off the prison system.

I have had the pleasure of getting to know a couple escorts and strippers outside of the office. They were normal, moral people who were only guilty of one thing - being a free spirit. And I've learned that society is not particularly fond of free spirits who don't paint pictures or sing songs.

[RochBob]

Not sure about the "Economic Benefit" of legalization. There would probably be more Economic Impact from breaking up these Powerball & Mega Million jackpots. Giving a Million to 300 people around the Country makes more sense that giving it to one - four people. But the way things have been going in some states. I can see "legal brothels" poping up in some of them. They most likely would follow the "Nevada" model for the most part. Have to be setup in a Rural area, no advertising except word of mouth, the Brothel operator needs to pay for an operators license, the Employees need to have regular Med tests and pay for a work permit. And of course there will be the State approved rules, regulations and Taxes on revenue.

Hell, I've saying for Years that if the excuse for allowing "Native American" Gaming is that they are separate Nations and don't have to follow Federal & State Laws. Then following that logic. They can open a Brothel in "Tribal Land" if they wish and the State can't do jack about it. That is of course as long they are "silent partners" in the endeavor and get a share of the profits.

[Randall Creed]

Stripping is different than escorting. Stripping usually mean working graveyard shift hours in smoke filled dumps with a bunch of creepos ogling and groping you all night, having to dance on a stage, many times for a buck at a time. You're also in direct competition with other girls every single night. Some nights you'll do great. Other nights....tsk. Not so much.

With escorting, one can control her own hours, set her own rates, pick her own customers. After 2 hours/appointments, an escort can be done working for the day. How many strippers do you know can take the rest the night off after 2 hours? Maybe that top 1% who has a client base. The rest, uhh, not so much. Some turn to working outside the club, because there just isn't enough business night after night.

Sure, escorts can hit dry spells, too, but at least they're not sitting in some smokey, dive of a club in the process.

[pumpkineater]

Legalized prostitution would be boon for sex traffickers of underage girls and sexual slaves. I'm shocked that amnesty international would even consider this as a good way to stop the abuse of a whole class of people. Now we have law enforcement, local, state, and federal working together to stop this horrific crime. Legalizing prostitution would move the focus away from stopping human trafficking and simply setting up regulators and a bureaucracy to make money off of all of this.

No thank you. I'm willing to go through the hoops, shadows, etc. if it means that the men in blue are trying to catch the traffickers and abusive pimps out there.

[Guest072118]

Im not sure it would change as much as one thinks. Many will still run 'black market'. May help a bit with underage and proper STD testing/care for some.

I personally would not. It means my name is listed somewhere as a hook... It will take much longer for society to change..

I already pay taxes(contrary to what many think, some of us do pay, PEO services rock) and play safely. I dont need to be 'regulated'.