If sex is legal among consenting adults, and selling is not only legal but this country is founded on free enerprise, THEN I don't understand.  If women are willing to sell....SEX (which by themself is legal) then why isn't "selling"+"sex" legal.
201541
Most prostitution is not drug related, true some drug addicts begin selling themselves to pay for their drug habits. Most prostitution comes from a man meeting a woman who has low self esteem and dating her for a very short minute and then moving her into prostitution. Pimps are more profitable when they are deep in ho's meaning when they have many prostitutes in their stable. These women just cant run, although they like to think that they can, the pimp "sweats" them meaning he drives around the block, has his people watching his prostitute, when the prostitute "breaks" or gets a john he watches her close, when the john leaves the pimp tells the woman to break herself, meaning to give him the money she just made, then she goes back out on the track meaning a predesignated, usually by the pimp, area and she walks up and down the street solicting herself. Most movies you see the prostitutes standing around on a street corner. This is not how prostitution works, they have to walk the track and keep walking they stop when they have a john. If you legalize prostitution you may get rid of the pimps sweating their ho's and many of the prostitutes would be able to run, but to legalize would be to only allow prostitution in specific buildings, peace officers would have to be present at all times and the sex acts themselves would have to be recorded, this would be to ensure that prostitutes dont get raped, because yes they do get raped.
548327
Marriage is a business, and the license makes it legal.  It is there to protect women's interests as far as property is concerned, and for raising children.  It is a protection.  if you don't plan on staying with someone, or having children, or making property community, there is no need for it.  People shouldn't enter into it lightly, and I think it would help the divorce rate if the benefits of marriage were eliminated.  People couldn't marry for money, or insurance, etc...
540305
Not wrong at all.  Two consenting adults that wish to engage in the act should be more than welcome to, regardless of sex.  If that's what you want to do, do it.  Who are we to judge?
92676
Prostitution will be there definitely, wherever there are men and women. This is supposed to be the world's oldest and profitable profession without any investment worth the name. So, there is nothing to talk about Japan in isolation. When men and women enjoy, it is called prostitution. Why is it not called so when animals do the same?
188567
First of all, the Constitution does NOT guarantee the "pursuit (or persuit) of happiness".  That expression appears in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence.  On substance, I doubt very much time and energy is spent in enforcing laws relating to prostitution in relation to other offenses. Finally, will you admit to any role for morality in criminal law?  I mean, take laws relating to age of consent -- why is consensual sex illegal for, say, 15 year olds but not 16 year olds?  In other words, how do you draw a line?
600431
i think prostitution is overrated, if people wanna have sex and get paid way not. a women can have sex with many men and get nothing is considered a whore, but if the men throw her a few dollars, she is a prostitute, why? why give it up for free. my take is if a guy friend of mine want's to have sex with me and my light bill is due, and i don't have it, hey, why not, get the bill paid and feel good while doing it
220094
Prostitution and drug pushing are two different acts and should be kept separate in legal and moral terms. When a person sells her/his body for money, it demeans the act of sexual intercourse into a purely business transaction.If the person selling sex has a transmittable disease, the other person may get it and, in turn spread it to others. The results can be ugly, and occasionally fatal, as with AIDS.\nDrug pushing, on the other hand, is intended to keep people addicted to some substance that has the power to kill. The people pushing the drugs are really helping the big drug lords in this and other countries to become rich,and they seldom are caught. Afghanistan, for example, is the world's largest producer of opium, and by buying this product the user is really helping the Taliban and the friends of Osama bin Laden. You remember him, don't you? He was the mastermind behind the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing more than 3,000 innocent people.\nIf you know these things, why would you want to make drug pushing or prostitution legal?
206845
Sex and mild erotica is widely used tool for advertisers. It not only catches the attention of the audience but also makes those commercials the talk of the town. I am sure you can remember quite a few times when you have found people discussing an ad cauz of its erotic nature. I love the ad of naukri.com (a job search site) in the ad an employee spells the name (Mr Hari) of his boss as H for Hitler A for Arrogant R for Rascal and I for Idiot, it is a funny ad and has a very strong message. I personally think people using sex for advertisement believe strongly that " Sex Sells" I think they don't want to put in extra effort to make a good commercial and rely on sex. I want to buy something when the price is less than the value OR the value is more than  the price :)
180556
Wow! Are you American? That kind of thinking isn't allowed here. What do you think this is a free country? Seriously  states do make these decisions didn't you know prostitution is legal in Nevada? But i do agree the government takes too much control of peoples rights you would think what goes on between two consenting adults is there decision...but there are allot of issue more pressing where the government takes control of peoples rights. How about imminent domain?
587882
If a woman submits sexually to a man specifically in expectation of monetary rewards, then SHE is breaking the law, she's solicitating.\n\nThis is important: if you are breaking the law yourself, you are often denied redress in court.  If you broke the law by soliciting, you can't expect him to follow the uniform commercial code in his subsequent actions and monetary transactions with you.\n\nThe HINT of money from a rich man is not illegal in most states.
32978
It's not illegal for teens to have sex, as long as it's with someone of similar age. Even if there were a law, it would be impossible to enforce. The 'sale' of pornography to minors is a crime, possession by a minor is not (unlike cigarettes & alcohol).
644792
no it is not. who defined massage, and to what extent? is it an ISO/JS or international standard that states that one cannot massage the body privates, and sets boudaries??? of course not, hence, it is not prostitution. well actually, no one specified with what you can massage the body. so technically, you can have some one massage you with their ahem ahem u know what, until your ahem ahem u know what....\nlol. viva la resistance!!!
54515
I agree that it should legal. The only reason it's not is because the right-wing seems deadset on living in the past and not progressing at all. It will happen one day, trust me. There were people who once said black people or women would never have the right to vote either. And to the first answerer, homosexuality is not the only way AIDS is spread!
277153
I certainly don't fear "the competition"...Besides the fact that my husband gets it good at home, most of the prostitutes I've seen are FAR from "very hot chick"...Most of them are drug addicted skanks who stopped trying to have any other skills when they realized they could make money off their own twat.\n\nPersonally, I believe that it should be legalized, as this removes much of the mystique and sordidness from the whole situation.  Also, in most places where it's legal, they're tested for diseases on a regular basis, which obviously solves a major problem.
178724
Soliciting a prostitute is different than incedent exposure.\n\nSomeone who needs to reveal socially-accepted-sexual body parts has a problem.  The whole "look at my penis in the library" fiasco that's been on the news (around where I live) is just disgusting.  It's an infringement upon the person who's being offended.  People have a right to be in public and not be subjected to that.  So yes - those people are wrong, they're breaking laws that are just, and they need to register.\n\nPrositution....that's a person's choice.  Granted, many prostitutes are "in the biz" b/c they "have to" and feel they have no way out, no other skills to utilize to make a living (sadly). However, it's not the government's job to babysit people and prevent them from making bad decisions which affect their lives.  So, if two adults want to have sex, free or otherwise, that's their business.  The laws governing that realm are absurd to me, and I dislike the fact that it's taken one step further to then label those people as sex offenders as if they somehow sought to hurt someone (obviously if they RAPE...yes you can rape a prostitute...then they ARE sex offenders)...\n\nit's a fine line.
632353
Porno is media, whereas prostitution is not.  Porno claims to be art, whereas prostitution is a one-to-one business transaction.\n\nPorno is legal because it claims to be either art or speech specifically protected under the first amendment.  Obscenity is not legal, and is defined by the supremes as essentially you know it when you see it.(The Warren Court).\n\nProstitution is illegal because it does not claim to be art, and therefore has no constitutional protections.  It does not cross state lines in all cases, so it does not fall under the regulation of the federal congress (and which is why it is not a federal offense).  It does however, fall under the regulation of state governments, and they have the choice to regulate it however they want to.  They could make it legal in their own state if they wanted to.
110746
Prostitution is legal in Nevada.  Some argue that prostitution should be legalized everywhere because the way the laws stand now, it denies some men and women the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, in other words, it denies some a right to work in a job that is suited for them.  \n\nMost Americans believe that prostitution is morally wrong, but at the same time, the most prevalent users of prostitutes are middle-class, middle-aged American men.\n\nProstitues in Nevada have an obligation to get regular medical care in order to assure that they are disease free.  Legalized prostitution would eliminate 'pimps' that feed on 'working women' and also deny those women their right to pursue their occupation in freedom.  \n\nPolitically, prostitution will probably not be legalized in the near future because it's a political hot potato and any legislator proposing the legalization of prostitution outside of Nevada would be looked upon with scorn and be ridiculed.