Prostitution: A Personal Choice | The Economist | AUG 2014

Prostitution : A personal choice

The internet is making the buying and selling of sex easier and safer. Governments should stop trying to ban it

Aug 9th 2014 | From the print edition


"STREET-WALKERS; kerb-crawlers; phone booths plastered with pictures of breasts and buttocks: the sheer seediness of prostitution is just one reason governments have long sought to outlaw it, or corral it in licensed brothels or “tolerance zones”. NIMBYs make common cause with puritans, who think that women selling sex are sinners, and do-gooders, who think they are victims. The reality is more nuanced. Some prostitutes do indeed suffer from trafficking, exploitation or violence; their abusers ought to end up in jail for their crimes. But for many, both male and female, sex work is just that: work.

This newspaper has never found it plausible that all prostitutes are victims. That fiction is becoming harder to sustain as much of the buying and selling of sex moves online. Personal websites mean prostitutes can market themselves and build their brands. Review sites bring trustworthy customer feedback to the commercial-sex trade for the first time. The shift makes it look more and more like a normal service industry."

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Where does it go once you've burned all your bridges? Hope your website works out for you, I don't believe you are liked very much here.

For every obscure article (this one you've linked from CANADA by the way), every random comedian who says its ok, I can find 50 articles like the one below showing that it is still illegal...and we still can go to jail from it. Pushing an agenda of flaunting a still illegal act is sheer stupidity...

My position...is don't start no shit, there wont BE no shit. Bringing attention to our community puts everyone at uneeded risk. Most of the girls here cant AFFORD to be busted. Most of the GUYS cant afford to be busted. Being UTR in this case is the smart thing to do...

http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.c...ests/15295189/

http://johntv.com/legalization-of-pr...as-a-solution/