aving apparently solved all the other problems in Illinois, state lawmakers are considering legalizing prostitution. Using the job title “sex worker,” they rationalize this terrible idea with a number of dumb reasons, chiefly the claim that legalized “sex work” will keep prostitution victims safe.
“Sex workers live under the near constant threat of violence: 75 percent of all sex workers will experience sexual violence in their careers and nearly two-thirds of all trans people killed in the past decade were sex workers,” the so-called Keeping Sex Workers Safe Act reasons. “It is the criminalization of adult consensual sex work that makes it so dangerous. When adult consensual sex work is decriminalized, sex workers can vet their clients, can always meet clients in safe spaces of their own choosing, and can go to law enforcement for protection and support.”
It means crime will still happen, but it won’t be so awkward to tell the police. That is not the same as safe. more here
…all politicians are whores anyway, so they want to normalize it…
All the Illinois LEFTIST Politicians just want to be the PIMPS so they will get their cut.
You either own your own body and can do with it what you wish (so long as you harm no persons or property) or you are the property of the state…aka a slave. But government has also destroyed society, the value of the currency, etc and is driving more and more people to engage in harmful and questionable behavior to survive. THAT is what we should be working on.
Oldest profession ever. I’ll go against the grain and say it should be legal, and not federally regulated.
“Sex workers live under the near constant threat of violence: 75 percent of all sex workers will experience sexual violence in their careers and nearly two-thirds of all trans people killed in the past decade were sex workers,”. OK, I’m not justifying it, but is it possible that the trans sex workers that were killed had not disclosed their sexuality and had an irate client come unglued with the reality that he was in bed with a guy? Food for thought.
joe6pak
Back in the late 70’s early 80’s, waaay before I was married, I had a room mate that worked at the same shop as I. So the guy has a birthday and him and his friends decide to cruz up to San Fran to celebrate. He ends up hooking up with this cute little blonde woman, renting a motel room for a night of pure lust. So after a lot of foreplay my room mate reached down to find out this cute blondes packing a dick. He was drunk. He was shocked. He beat the fuck out of it. Probably not a good reaction. But for a 21 year old guy not unexpected.
Sex outside of marriage is a vice and not a crime.
Govt is not the proper judge of vice.
Recommended reading:
Lysander Spooner
Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty (1875)
(Text hosted on squarespace so you need to find and click on article title.)
When our politicians PROSTITUTE themselves DAILY, and 330,000,000 people are the VICTIMS, I would say that they are in NO POSITION to be regulating, banning, or anything else, the voluntary exchange of sex for money. As one Libertarian presidential candidate once said – “prostitution is basically two actions: sex, and voluntary/free commerce…to which do you object?”
“prostitution is basically two actions: sex, and voluntary/free commerce…to which do you object?”
I’ve read estimates that it would reduce rape by almost 70%.
Oops. I forgot to post the link to the link to the essay.
https://www.lysanderspooner.org/works
Tips and gifts will be tax free. YAY!
Gov. Prickster will be the Long-legged Mack Daddy of Illinois.
“Tips and gifts will be tax free. YAY!”
Tips? I gotta tip for them.
Left a tip? Leper Clients will do that.