Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
Prostitution, ie. selling your body, should be legal. Buying it should be illegal. Punish the buyer, not the seller.

Do you have any evidence that this has actually worked in Norway, I seem to recall hearing that visible prostitution disappeared after the law was introduced (in Oslo, in Bergen I believe the police did not direct enough resources towards it), but that it is back now.

And how do you propose that a prostitute can exercise her legal right to sell her/(his) body if her/(his) potential costumers risk trouble with the police if they buy it? (Edit: If we look at it in principle)

I honestly can't see how you can defend this notion without a serious case of doublethink...
(Edit: during the writing of the post, I sort of came to the same conclusion myself, when we are dealing with the real world..)


On the actual topic itself. In principle I am for legalization of prostitution (buying and selling), however that being said I am not sure that it should be legal in reality exactly for the reasons that HoreTore state, that it is most often poor, drugaddicts, and women who are forced into prostitution who sell their body.