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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (840)	3/13/2008 5:29:04 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6846

Reasons to make something legal or illegal. 1 - Democracy, what do the people want. - Well on the whole they want prostitution illegal. So score one point for making it illegal. 2 - Freedom - This point goes in the other category. 3 - Constitutional issues - Not really involved here in terms of any state prosecution of Spitzer or the prostitute (except maybe a 4th amendment issue over how they found out about it). 4 - Public Health - Score this one in the column for legalization. Prostitution happens anyway, and when its illegal your more likely to have prostitutes with STDs and not using condoms. And I would compare legalization to legalizing drunk driving. I think that's a pretty bogus. When you drive drunk (at least sufficiently drunk) your immediately, and fairly directly putting the lives of many people at risk. With prostitution, its not the payment that creates a risk of disease, its the sex. But you aren't pushing for sex to be outlawed (or sex between unmarried people, or adultery, or promiscuity, or unprotected sex). Your argument is like saying because murder results in dead people, we should outlaw contract killing, but leave murder legal. Even NV limits legalization. Prostitution is NOT legal in Clark or Washoe Counties where LV and Reno - in other words, the state's population - are. Which means that LV and Reno have illegal prostitution problems that are similar to the problems cities in other states have.