Aswad
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Tal ShreveportMaster,
Around these parts, the legal risk is entirely on the buyer's head.
Effective from earlier this year, a law was enacted to outlaw buying the services, but not selling them. Profiting from someone else selling such services has been outlawed longer than I have been around (in fact, for that reason, their income is not taxed, because that would- in the eyes of the law- make the state their pimp). Of course, this law was enacted out of pity (another good example of where pity is harmful) and input from the feminazis (the kind that gets all in a huff when money is spent on securing roads instead of swapping traffic lights at zebra crossings with ones that have gender neutral stick figures instead of the classic man-with-a-hat). It was also enacted against the insistent pleas of every support group for prostitutes out there, including the prostitutes' own "labor union."
As a consequence, the physical risk has gone up significantly.
No longer can the girls afford to turn down the worst clients, because the good catches either don't want to risk it, or have too much of that law-abiding citizen thinking about them. The worst clients obviously don't have the patience to find women who will put up with them, and the services they are out to buy tend to be the sort that most women would kick them out of the house for even bringing up. Of course, now the shelters are filling up, and it's all going from being a comparatively harmless industry with individual prostitutes working alone or in small groups, to being a pretty hardcore environment with rising drug abuse, rising disease, rising violence, more consumption of police resources, onset of illegal immigration and pimping, violent attempts at hogging the smaller customer base, etc.
All in all, the feminists are outraged, the police and hospitals are exasperated, the feminazis are pretty happy, and the pitiers choose to see it as confirmation that they were right in the first place; nothing new under the sun. I must say I prefer Denmark in this regard. Not only does it remain legal there, but their universal healthcare system even extends to covering expenses to hire the services of prostitutes for people with disabilities when the lack of physical intimacy causes significant distress. That's got to qualify as getting your money's worth, tax-wise. -lol-
Really, prostitution is something men should embrace, if anything. Disease is easily controlled by requiring a licence and regular checkups to keep the licence (has been done in some countries, and works). Violence is tied to the availability of customers and the ability to do business "above board," and drug abuse is inversely covariant with the same factors. When women were prohibited from holding land or earning money by themselves, prostitution was the one way any woman could achieve something she set her mind to, starting with financial independence. It's a service that men want. The real reason it has come to be regarded so poorly is at least twofold: (a) in societies where a woman otherwise needs to be attached to a man to have a decent standard of living, prostitutes are unwanted competition, as they allow men to have what they want without making a commitment, and (b) in extremely patriarchal societies, the perceived threat of the financial independence of even a few women is so "grave" that it must be outlawed. The rest is mostly men parroting women, i.e. generations of viral manipulation, until we all forget where it started.
I fail to see where strong men, whether ruling or not, have anything to fear from prostitution.
Health,
al-Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind.
From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way.
We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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