Comments on: UK Nurses Urge Legal Prostitution, Clean Uniforms

By: Anderson

Anderson — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:26:09 +0000

I think combining the occupations of nursing and prostitution is clearly the way to go here. Who better to guarantee she's STD-free than a registered nurse? And nursing salaries could only benefit. The healthcare policy implications are, of course, staggering.

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 03:57:15 +0000

Prostitution is already quasi-legal in the UK. The only things prohibited are public solicitation, "running a bawdy house" employing two or more sex workers, and living off the earnings of a prostitute (i.e., pimping). Some cities have experimented with regulated red-light districts, thus far with no criminal effect.

Prostitutes are already unionized in several European countries, where they are also regulated. By providing valid information about disease as well as psychos, they have actually reduced by the disease and crime rates.

In Calcutta, where prostitutes are also unionized, they have the lowest rate of HIV infection of any city in India. And that's saying a lot.

If one's body is one's own, (viz. Roe v. Wade), what is the consistent legal argument against selling the temporary use of that body at the vendor's volition?

By: Brian J.

Brian J. — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:35:53 +0000

Not to mention that legalization would lead to unionization, and from thence to higher prices for consumers and eventual outsourcing and offshoring.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:23:22 +0000

Legalizing prostitution will lead to regulation, thence to "professionalization" and standards. Which, it seems to me, will still leave the "vulnerable" outside of the protection of the legal trade.