to Montreal (Quebec province) and were “solicited” by about ten different girls while walking around the downtown city streets. Being an inquisitive block head always out to spoil a good thing, I asked a couple of policemen on foot patrol what the deal was. They said that prostitution was legal, BUT that they were not supposed to “soliticit” customers, however they said that they have never enforced this provision for some reason. About a month ago, I was involved in a debate at www.allnurses.com (screen name Roland) and someone from Canada said that I was completely wrong about prostitution being legal in Canada. They said that Canadian federal law prohibited any prostitution and took precedence over in provincial laws to the contrary. Is this the case? How about France (we were supposed to go there my senior year of highschool, but that son of a gun in Libya caused the trip to be canceled), Mexico, the UK, Germany, Italy ect? Is it common or uncommon to have legalized prostitution? Has this caused an increase in STD’s in those places where it is legal?
I don’t know about the implications as far as disease goes, but prostitution is legal in Germany and (I assume) the Netherlands. There’s one spot on one of the federal highways near where I live that has two prostitutes in their mobile home, waving to the potential Johns. They park in the same spot every night, turn on the light in the cab, and sit in their bras and wave. It’s interesting.
Jman
and they call America the “land of the free”? We have thousands of women protesting in DC to protect their rights to their own bodies by having abortions. Where are the protests for legalized prostitution? Call me conspiratorial, but I think that many women oppose prostitution (legalized) because they know that sex hungry men are easier to control. Seriously, I bet more than half of the guys that I know (and in most cases grew up with) got married at least in large part so that they would have access to regular sex (yes I know, we were all deluded). What’s more all most NONE of them would admit that as being the case outside of one on one conversations (perhaps for fear their wife would find out or because it just doesn’t sound like a “cool” motivation).
You really have some sort of ‘thing’ with the not-really-answerable sex questions, don’t you?
Yes, I think that is a fair characterization except that at least parts of this one can be answered. We have already learned that the big P is legal in Germany, I would be willing to wager that it is also legal in the UK, Italy, parts of Canada, Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere. Frankly, if I find this to be the case then the world will appear (at least in my mind) as a brighter, warmer, place.
It’s legal in the US, you know.
in the states drives up the price to the point that few can afford to utilize this service on a regular basis.
Surprisingly, this is not a simple either/or situation. There are many countries where an act of prostitution (consent to sexual intercourse in return for money) is not illegal or criminal, but many of the associated activities are criminal – soliciting, steetwalking, kerb-crawling, keeping a brothel, living off immoral earnings, etc. Most of the citizens of those countries probably think that prostitution is illegal. And in other countries, some of these associated activities may be legalised subject to conditions or restrictions (you need a licence, you need a medical inspection, only in this district, etc) while others are still completely illegal. So the correct position is that prostitution is not simply legal or illegal; rather, prostitution and associated activities are more or less illegal in different places.
Only in an ironic sense.
OK, you’re conspiratorial. “Access to regular sex” for unmarried men depends largely on social conventions about, and attitudes to, extramarital sex, and in most societies the legality or otherwise of acts associated with prostitution would only have a marginal effect on the sex lives of most unmarried men.
Personally, I had about twenty relationships before I got married. Most were expensive and time consuming and when I look back I see that sex was a primary motivation for my interest in the relationship. The one girl where true love was a motivation ended in heartbreak (and was still expensive, time consuming ect) that left me on the brink of suicide (the only time in my life that I’ve felt anything like real depression). Honestly, if I had it to do over again I would budget about $400.00 or so per month for paid sex and be done with the whole matter. Then, when I was forty or so (and able to think without my gonads overiding my intellect) I might start looling for a life partner. This is especially the case since I never had a desire to be married or have kids (I thought a dog might be nice, and now I even have five of them). In fact, my main motivation for “marrying” my wife was because she “hung around” and put up with me, and I was too weak to hurt her feelings by telling her that I didn’t have “an attraction” to her (it is perhaps ironic that I am exponentially more attracted to and in love with my wife now, eleven years after our meeting and three years after our marrying at a time when she almost can’t stand to even be around me).
All in all, if I had it to do over again I would opt for either chemical castration, or regular, scheduled prostitution.
That’s great. Hey, you are being Pitted.
aint google great
http://www.sexwork.com/coalition/whatcountrieslegal.html
It’s illegal in Japan, but so narrowly defined that only covers a man paying a woman for penile-vaginal intercourse counts as ‘prostitution’. Any other variation is completely legal, and there are a large number of businesses openly offering handjobs, oral sex, anal sex, and just about anything else you could think of (and many you probably couldn’t. This is the place that invented tentacle porn, after all).
Even with all this, there’s a large amount of the illegal variety around as well.
Just ignore that ‘covers’, please. That’s what comes from starting one thought and finishing a completely different one.
In NSW Prostitution is neither legal nor illegal - it’s decriminalised. There’s a difference.
I am especially interested in the situation in Quebec since I took a beating at allnurses (from people in Canada no less) for my position that it was legal there. With regards to New South Wales if someone engages in prostitution are they arrested or fined? If not then it is effectively legal, if not it’s still illegal (in my opinion). Consider that speeding in an auto is not technically a “criminal” act in the United States. However, if you get too many tickets (and the points that go with them) you can lose your license and if you keep driving, ultimately lose your freedom.
IANA lawyer BUT decriminalised simply means there used to be a law against it but there is no law against it any longer. In the ACT, however, it is legal, meaning there is a law regulating prostitution, brothels, etc.
It’s like the difference between driving a car on private property versus on a public road. There are no laws regulating how you may drive on your own land, but regulations covering use of vehicles on public roads.
And as for speeding? Well, I’m not sure about the law where you are, but speeding is certainly a criminal offence in Australia.
But what the he11 is allnurses?
sorry - meant to include this .
I am a nursing student and Allnurses refers to a discussion board with about 30,000 people interested in nursing who participate. However, a plethora of subjects are discussed there. In one particular thread the subject of “prostitution for the disabled” was posted by a nurse from France. I defended the idea to a degree (and the idea of prostitution in general) and this was a very unpopular position.
Never mind about the all nurses question - I see your link now :rolleyes:
Contrast the legal situation between three Australian states;
In South Australia, there is a law against prostitution, hence illegal. You get caught participating in prostitution you get fined or imprisoned or both.
In the Northern Territory, there is a regulatory body that says who can and who can’t engage in prostitution, and controls how prostitution occurs. There it is legal.
In New South Wales, it used to be illegal but the law was removed, hence decriminalised.
And I seem to know WAY too much about this.
Prostitution is legal in France. Soliciting is illegal (fines) and apparently enforced relatively arbitrarily by the police (a recent widened the definition of solliciting, if I am not mistaken). Advertizing for prostitution is also illegal. Brothels are illegal. Prostitutes pay taxes. Pimpering is illegal, of course (and its definition is very extensive. Living with a prostitute is “pimpering” whether or not one receive money from her)
One could note that making prostitution legal but soliciting, advertizing and brothels illegal is a kind of catch 22 for the prostitutes.
It’s impossible to say if prostitution being legal results in an increase of STDs, since you would have to compare with an other period during which it was forbidden.
Anyway, nobody ever has managed to eradicate prostitution. There were prostitutes in Afghanistan under the Talibans, for god’s sake! IMO, the only sensible way to go is to legalize prostitution and make sure that it’s as safe as possible for both the prostitute and the john. This probably means allowing brothels, like in the Netherlands, for instance. However even in such a country, there is still “wild” prostitution, involving in particular illegal immigrants from eastern europe (and as most people know, these are generally savagely exploited by international mafia networks).