[quote=JD Barleycorn;2045447]Can anyone really understand WTF? Someone says that prostitution can't be legalized and I point out that it has been legal and is legal in some areas.
Pointing out where it was once legal does not make your case, it makes mine. I also point out that in some major cities prostitution, though not legal, is confined to certain areas where it is left alone in some ways.
You need to do more research when you make those lies. Though it will never be shut down, that does not mean that they have turned a blind eye.
Someone says that, like drugs, prostitution will stay illegal.
I did not say that, though I kinda agree. I will not talk about drugs but they have a better chance than prostitution. Prostitution has no chance. None. I point out the states that have decriminalized marijauna. Not legal but a step.
I want to talk about prostitution. I did not bring up the other subject.
You can call me naive (but you don't know me at all) but that is all you can say.
And you do not know me but if I said I was going to fuc Angie Jolie, you'd better sure as hell think I was naive. Same thing. I am saying that what you are saying is naive. How hard is that to understand? I do not have to know you to know that something you say is naive. Jesus man, I though you wanted to be a screen writer! I point out the supporting actions and statements but WTF have offered nothing in rebuttal save criticism and attacks.
You pointed out a couple of lies and half truths. The fact of the matter is that the country is drifting further right on this issue.
My purpose was to call for some small amount of action on the part of people here. That means calling radio stations and registering your anger at the waste of taxpayer money. Writing to the newspaper questioning what real crime is being committed.
Good Luck on that. Questioning candidate for local office about where they stand on the issue.
Good Luck on that one too. Small steps over time
. If you have the guts to pursue the matter.[/quote]
I spent a pile of $$$ one year trying to get someone elected that thought like I did on prostitution. He came in a respectable third. I have the guts and the means, I also have the good sense not to throw good money after bad!
I expect that it will be legal in certain localities in the future just like before. We already have cities turning a blind eye to the profession if it stays inside certain areas; Boston (the Block), Baltimore (the Combat Zone), and New Orleans (the French Quarter).
Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
You sir are full of shit. Localities are getting tougher on these crimes, not less so. Do you even research what you post?
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The Block, choose to contain the prostitution and drug dealing in that small section of Baltimore rather than combat it.
The passing decades would see a shrinking of the area. Once several blocks long, stretching almost to Charles Street in the central part of downtown Baltimore, today The Block only stretches about two blocks long from South Street to Gay Street.
Balt
The Combat Zone's demise can be attributed to a number of factors. Among them are the rising property values that made the downtown locations more attractive to real estate developers. In 1974, the Boston Redevelopment Authority began a containment policy by designating the existing businesses to be part of the official adult entertainment district known as Liberty Tree Park. The highly-publicized 1976 murder of Harvard football player Andrew Puopolo focused attention on crime in the area.
The introduction of home video and the Internet made it possible to view adult movies and other erotica at home without going to a possibly dangerous red light district. Zoned out of the rest of Boston, the strip clubs have moved to the suburbs and become more up-scale.
Years of grassroots activism by neighboring Chinatown residents, aggressive police work and massive urban renewal projects instigated by the Boston Redevelopment Authority helped to stem crime and close most of the adult businesses. All that remains of the former Combat Zone are two small strip clubs, Centerfolds and The Glass Slipper, along LaGrange Street, and a few adult book and video stores on Washington and Kneeland streets. Prostitution and drug sales continue in nearby Chinatown, the Theatre District, Bay Village and Park Square.[5]