Quote Originally Posted by bdsmbill
In addition, the pimps provide a needed service. Prostitutes do not have recourse to help from the police because prostitution is illegal. If they have trouble with customers not paying or assaulting them, the pimp is their only option. The solution to this is to legalize prostitution.

Bill
No..my whole argument was not how to make the hooking profession more equitable for the workers..it was more about how to get rid of it. There are girls who are not drug users and simply enjoy the line of work as a sex worker, although I doubt there's very many in it other than their circumstances force them. Prostitution should be illegal, because it spreads STD's. Usually, when FORCED prostitution comes into play, it's because some pimp has got his girlfriend hooked on a drug, then forced her to start pimping to pay for her addiction. Either that, or the women, for one reason or another, are unemployable and must resort to prostitution to pay the bills (but I would argue that more often than not the "bills" are really some sort of addiction, be it drugs or alchohol). Women/Men like that do not deserve a free ticket to continue the downward spiral, then need to be institutionalized. Get them off the street, give them hard core kick in the ass and cut off the controlled substance supply. Perhaps give them some sort of training..a high school diploma would probably be a good start (most probably don't even have that). Then, once they are cleaned up, move them to half way homes on the condition that they find gainfull employment (there will be state/province run programs for this) to get experience. If they fail to tow the line there, then they should be sent back for more "attitude adjustment". Some of you will inevitable say this is way to hardline of an approach, and most of this is goes against their rights. Well, fuck that. These people have fucked up. They're poster children for everything that's fucked up about society. They're the people that make that "seedy neighborhood" seedy!!

Now, onto abortion. It's a shitty fact of life that the woman gets stuck getting pregnant and having the child. In a perfect world, there would be serious consequences (other than monetary) for the man too! But, alas, there isn't. Too often the woman, by default, gets stuck with this child and the man buggers off never to be heard from. Is it fair that just because of physiological reasons the women should be stuck with this burden? No! As long as the fetus is part of the woman's body, she should have free reign as to what to do with it. I know, some of you will come back and say "so you're equating a fetus to an ingrown hair?"...and essentially water it down enough and yeah, that's what I'm saying. It is part of the woman's body. If she doesn't want it, it should absolutely be her right to have an abortion.