Prostitution legalization

We do not know how many people are threatened by a mafia because these people, fearing for their lives and the lives of their families, will not say anything. A mafia will be wherever there is money to be made quickly, prostitution, trafficking in human beings, child abuse, now, at this moment it already exists. You don't have to be born in any city in Italy and I didn't say anything about Italy. But in the news it is surprising how many ramifications mafias like the Russian one, for example, have, even close to governments. They have a lot of money and money is a temptation and if they don't get results with money, there is always violence. Not having information about coercion does not mean that coercion does not exist.

 

Let's not expect that the mafias that control the whole world of prostitution, by a simple legalisation, five minutes after the law is passed, will say, we have no more business, let's look for an 8 hours a day job.

 

I used to work "Special Victims" at NYCDA and "Major Crime" at AUSA. I know the argument you are trying to make. And too many people think reality is closer to Taken than it really is. In the US, there is a decidedly NOT mob run businesses. Somehow? It functions just fine in Nevada. And the "mob is not threatening them and the real people in charge".

 

Some men in this world live by principle - "I just should try/explore it by myself..."
So, being (rarely) as a consumer, with prostitutes, both at Reeperbahn in Hamburg;
and Red Light District in Amsterdam - I should say - I was not thinking there at all about
cruel mafias, and revolution... Because - here it is LEGAL...
I think so - if there is an urgent demand amongst customers / both men and women!/,
there should be a possibility for trade/market...

 

I wasn't talking about TV, just read the news.

 

Basing everything on demand is not a good idea, it may work with goods, but here we are not talking about goods, we are talking about people. Reducing the problem to a few places where prostitution seems, I insist, seems because we do not know the reality that it is exercised freely, when we know that prostitution is controlled by mafias, is not covering the whole problem. Legality will not end the mafias, they will only change their tactics. They make millions of dollars a day, they won't quit. Just remember Odette's publication, with the reality of women who are prostitutes in a legal country with prostitution.

 

We could talk about three points, the trafficking of human beings for sex, the abuse of minors and the prostitution of adults. If there already exist in two of them, human trafficking and child abuse, laws to eradicate them, police forces exclusively for these cases, agreements in all countries to prevent them and it has not been achieved because the mafias get millions of dollars, why should we think that with adult prostitution, which also produces millions of dollars, they would give up to continue getting that money for a simple piece of paper that says that prostitution is legal?

Neither illegal prostitution nor mafias have been eradicated in countries where prostitution is legal.

 

More about the main theme - prostitution >
as I understand the problem - there are two ways -

1. Make it LEGAL / and accept prostitutes as sex workers, with taxes, social and medical care, insurance etc./
2. Let it be ILLEGAL, underground / and do not accept illegal prostitutes as sex workers, with taxes, social and medical care etc./

Because - this oldest in world profession exists /illegally/ even in strict Muslim countries.
And - in both cases - Legal or illegal - mafia still controls prostitution money...

 

3.- Information: To offer information to all women about possible cases of violence, abuse, rape, illnesses before prostitution. Offer women a job and that in that freedom and with all the real information about what prostitution really is, they can freely decide what they want to do. And most importantly, social education campaigns so that society understands that if a woman is a prostitute she should be respected, that she is not a toy, she is a human being, that paying for her is not being her owner and master, that society understands that a woman is not a THING that can be bought.

But we come back to the same point, in none of these three cases did the mafias that control the whole world of prostitution give up their incredible profits.

 

Estrella de Mar, what you said is very important, because it says in what sense people think of prostitution, the submission of women. It has been repeated several times that the woman has to have a disease control, but nobody has talked about the same control for the client, forgetting that if a prostitute gets sick, it means that a client has infected her. This shows that the law is sexist and that it wants the prostitute to be an object that is always desirable for the client. That is a very important point. All the obligations for the prostitute, all the pleasure for the client. Besides, they say that it is for the good of the prostitute, so that she is healthy and doesn't get diseases, the best way is to prevent a disease, not to cure the disease. And the diseases are infected by the clients. Legalise prostitution yes, but all clients must provide a daily medical certificate that they do not have any disease. This is the way to protect prostitutes, preventing them from getting infected, not curing them afterwards. And not all diseases are curable.

 

The situation was very simple. If a person has a monthly salary of 1,000 dollars and his company pays him 995 dollars a month, he immediately protests to get paid those 5 dollars. It is very childish to think that people who are earning millions of dollars a month would give up all that money simply because prostitution is legal. We talk about a small part of women who do it freely and with that shield, we forget the thousands of women who are trafficked into prostitution and we have the illusion that legalising prostitution will make these women happy in prostitution, when they were taken to brothels under false pretenses. The mafias make millions from these deceived women and they do not give up these profits. In Europe, an advanced continent in terms of laws and rights, human trafficking still exists and cannot be eradicated. If a person does not give up 5 dollars, let's not think that the mafias gave up millions of dollars. People talk a lot about feminism, but it is not that word, the word is feminine dignity.