Originally posted by Curtis
I thought this thread was dead! Thanks Bill.

I'm surprised that you think pro-choicers are generally anti-prostitution. I haven't seen any surveys done on the subject, so you may well be correct, but my position is that prostitution should be legal and regulated, like the right to serve alcohol or sell firearms, with monthly doctor's visits and STD checks (plus pension plans, medical and dental coverage, income tax witholding and all that rot).

On the other hand, I think most pimps deserve to be taken out and shot.

(lex, you'll find two or three other 'age of consent' threads scattered about; one of them currently active.)


Most women get involved with pimps because originally they were their boyfriends that supplied them with drugs. Once the pimps get the girl hooked, they then take away the supply. The women get so desperate that they will do anything, i.e: prostitution, to get that supply. They give the pimp the money they make hooking and the pimp then obliges their addictions. My personal views on "taking pimps out and shooting them" are that that will only create a power vacuum that will be filled by the next drug dealer. To really get rid of forced prostitution, you need to get rid of the drug trade.