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To: one_less who wrote (3565)	3/3/2010 1:28:38 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3816

but not a good justification for legalizing criminal conduct. Criminal conduct can mean something where someone is acting as a criminal and abusing others, or it can mean anything someone passed a law against. Prostitution is the later, but I would submit not the former. You don't need a justification to make it legal, you need a good one to make it illegal. I don't see any. I see ideas presented attempting to do so, but I'm convinced that they don't actually amount to a good reason. They are mostly either false, or something that criminalization doesn't solve (predominately the later). Generally if a good or service is legal to give to someone, I think it should be legal to sell to someone. A couple of asides to that last comment. 1 - I know that sex is much more than just a service, but that doesn't mean it isn't one. 2 - "Should be legal to sell to someone" does not extent to fraudulent transaction, or bribery. Fraud is illegal even if it doesn't involve sales. Bribery and corruption are legitimately criminal. Your effectively selling something that isn't yours to sell. When we establish supportive policies, institutionalize practices and legitimize the economic functions within society which condone prostitution, we also sanction the ideas that the sexuality of some people, mostly women and emasculated boys, are economic property to be exploited by powerful others. We do no such thing. Either people are their own property or they are not. Restricting what someone can do with their body (other than things like harm others) reduces the amount they control and effectively own their body, and makes them partially the property of the government doing the restricting.