Once we've banned prostitution, what other industries will we ban?

[brooklynite]

Construction? (We need to protect the day laborers who's only asset is their bodily strength)

Restaurants? (All those underpaid waitresses and kitchen workers forced to work overtime and denied their tips)

Housekeeping? (Plenty of maids whose employers don't pay full salaries and SS)

Clothing manufacturing? (All those sweatshops)

In each of these cases, laws can reform the industry, but if we fall back to the arguments expressed about sex work, nothing short of a total ban is acceptable. And I've come to conclusion that this is due to the belief among some that it's just not possible for anyone to WANT to work in the sex industry.

Welcome to reality: in any industry, there are some people who choose to do the work because they want to, and some who choose to do the work because they feel they have to. We should be making every work environment as safe and remunerative as possible, not making arbitrary decisions about what is "good" and "bad" work to be engaged in.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. 'Welcome to reality'.

Um, it's been 'banned', aka illegal, for quite a while now. If we were going to 'slippery slope', we'd have already seen 'other industries banned' if they were going to be.

So the answer to your hypothetical question is apparently none.

You might try again with an argument that isn't complete and utter fail.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. Some forms of prostitution exist,

but you have to go to D.C to see it for yourself. Those Pros will do anything for the right price and a cushy job in the private sector once they've left office.

[brooklynite]

5. And yet, DU seems to have endless discussions about it...

...and it's not illegal everywhere in the US, much less the world, nor is porn acting, exoptic dancing, being a dominatrix, etc. so challenging the advocates of banning them is perfectly acceptable.

[Squinch]

3. Newsflash: prostitution is currently, and has always been, illegal in most parts of the US.

Now. What were you saying?

[conservaphobe]

4. And how will it affect the marriages of some of the ghouls on the Forbes 400?

[leftstreet]

6. I thought it was already illegal n/t

[brooklynite]

7. Not in Nevada...

[Iron Man]

8. Fast food and retail.

No one willingly wants to work those jobs, but they have to in order to pay the bills.

[Calista241]

9. So, regarding the reality of prostitution and police enforcement

I've always wondered why people didn't negotiate a rate to "get a woman's fashion opinion of the underwear i'm wearing today" or something else that's totally unrelated to sex.

Then, once you're in the hotel room, and while you're showing her your underwear, all of sudden you both get horny and decide to get all freaky. Technically, you purchased a service from her to get her advice on your clothes, and the sex was incidental.

I mean, all you see on Cops, is the dudes paying $20 for a blowjob or $50 for everything, and they're real specific about what they're purchasing. Why not disguise the purchase as a purchase for something else?

Think that'd work?