Consensual commercial sex should be legal
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UK news magazine The Economist outlines some of the reasons that commercial sex should be decriminalized.
... Criminalisation forces prostitution into the underworld. Legalisation would bring it into the open, where abuses such as trafficking and under-age prostitution can be more easily tackled. Brothels would develop reputations worth protecting. Access to health care would improve—an urgent need, given that so many prostitutes come from diseased parts of the world. Abuses such as child or forced prostitution should be treated as the crimes they are, and not discussed as though they were simply extreme forms of the sex trade ...
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I’ve done a bit of reading in The Economist for research projects. They are usually on top of the things they post about.
Posted by: josh | September 13, 2004 4:49 PM