..I think it damn well should be. Clean brothels where the women would be safe from all the nutters out there. Like in europe the women have check ups etc for a clean bill of health. It would make a shed load in taxes for what ever crappy/capitalist goverment was in power. Drugs should be made legal as well, would stop most of the problems associated with the black market overnight. This country is medieval & backward when it comes to things like this, I'm thinking of moving abroad

I totally agree with you.!! and amount of 'legal' drugs th at do so much harm well...

Except, it is always possible for some one on the street to undercut the 'market rate' esp if they are desperate enough or under age.

From an intellectual point of view, I agree with you but from the reality I'm not sure.

Obv legalising will have massive benifits to the majority but will it help the most vunerable ?

They actually pay tax to the state in Amsterdam and have enforced STI tests every week plus they have security upstairs (my mate found this out when he tried to take pictures in the Red Light District). I'm for it personally, so long as its regulated to certain areas.

Sure would make Wayne Roony a happy man!
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I totally agree...after living in Amsterdam ad seing how well it works there. Not only would there be all the cash generated from tax, but tourism too.

i agree, it would b v strange living in a country where it was legal, but its the way forward.

I'd much rather the market for sex was "undercut" by someone more desperate to beat their competition, than for a girl doing it illegally to go "missing" because she wasn't correctly monitored.

I'm in total opposition to the legalisation of prostitution and the state organised profiteering and exploitation of women and children. This glamourous, childish image of legalised prostitution should be exposed once and for all. It is seedy, tawdry and soul destroying no matter how you sugar coat it. So prostitution should be legalised? Turned into a respectable profession? One that other people's daughters, mothers and sisters undertake, yes? Nobody we would know! So, which class of girls will get the option to become a whore at the careers day at school, eh?

The suggestion that by objecting in principle to the exploitation of women and children within the global sex industry I am being naive is an odd one. Simply because something is "rife" as you put it does not mean it must be culturally acceptable or condoned by legalisation. The fact that you make the links between violence and exploitation shows that those who should be criminalised should be those men who believe that they have an inalienable right to pay for sex. Prostitution will never exist in a hermeticaly sealed vacumn. Its spreads its pernicious links to child prostitution, pornography and violence. Treat it as a business under the spurious guise of it being beneficial to the tax payer, societies send out the message that in such a free economy human life can have very little value. And that overwhelmingly women's lives and those of children are the most valueless. 500.000 women from eastern bloc european countries find themselves in European brothels every year, many of them against their will. The sex trade is second only to the arms and drug trades and is catching up rapidly. Just because it is there don't makeit morally right! So do not criminalise prostitutes, but the men who use them.