Legalizing Prostitution in Canada

[Fragony]

Fragony: are you, by any chance, in favor of legalizing slavery?

No- but I am familiar with lefttist logic

[Montmorency]

No- but I am familiar with lefttist logic

Can't say the same regarding yours.

Has anyone thought of Germany?
In brothels here the prostitutes usually rent a room and pay rent to the owner. That means no problems with so many employees and they take care of their own healthcare.
As such they are self-employed and just rent their workshop from a brothel owner.
Also don't forget demand, your average consumer may well be willing to pay a little more to go to a legal establishment because that way his own risks are far lower and he doesn't become a criminal himself.
You still get the underground scene most likely but it's reduced because the legal business gobbles up a large chunk of the demand.
Better to improve it for some than for noone?!

Most people today are willing (at least implicitly) to pay higher food prices for higher quality and safety. The same principle should apply to prostitution. Someone who wants a $10 back-alley blowjob, is unable to pass a prior health screening, or unwilling to undergo the process, will still be able to obtain such an illegal service, and the risk of venereal disease that accompanies it.

To answer more or less of the concerns raised by patrons regarding legalisation: why not legislation that introduces graduated, increasing levels of regulatory burden over a decade or two? This gives time for everyone to acclimate, for some of the social stigma of being/relating with a prostitute to diminish, for collective organizations representing multiple prostitutes to arise (to distribute the burden, provide health care, etc.), and for the legal collectivities to edge out well-established illegal sources?

Society will continue to bear its share of marginal members no matter what legislation is enforced (unless it sets up the ultimate police state). Why, for the potential (highly dubious, that) sake of a very few of these, should the conditions of heightened risk to physical and all other sorts of well-being, as well as diminished legal and social standing, be pressed upon an entire subset of occupations?

Rescuing hookers from the difficulties of running a 'small business' isn't a good excuse either...

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