Selling’s legal, fucking’s legal. Why isn’t selling fucking legal?
Jokes aside, a legal and regulated sex trade just makes far more sense than ceding the entire industry to the black market. The idea that we could ever stamp it out is so blindingly stupid that anyone with that thought in their head should be tested for mental impairment. So, instead of actually reducing harm, we have driven the sex trade underground. We’ve made it insanely profitable for criminal organizations to engage in human trafficking and sex slavery. Assholes like the one mentioned in the article abuse positions of power to force vulnerable women into sex slavery and keep them there, as they are afraid to seek out help from the authorities. Vice officers, like the asshole in the article end up focused on arresting and jailing the sex workers, ensuring that those sex workers will be afraid and unwilling to cooperate with the police when they either witness or are victims of crime.
It’s long past time that we realize that we accept that Prohibition, in all it’s forms, was a dumb idea. Legalize, regulate and focus on harm reduction, rather than letting a bunch of holier-than-thou assholes try to dictate how others live via the force of government.
My state setup an automatic license plate scanner in an area known for it. Started sending letters to people’s homes with photographs of their car and a notice that they were driving in the area. Fucking creepy as all hell. People being made to feel afraid for the act of driving on a public road. Who knows how many people were just getting gas or going to work at a nightshift getting harassed by Big Brother.
Selling’s legal, fucking’s legal. Why isn’t selling fucking legal?
Jokes aside, a legal and regulated sex trade just makes far more sense than ceding the entire industry to the black market. The idea that we could ever stamp it out is so blindingly stupid that anyone with that thought in their head should be tested for mental impairment. So, instead of actually reducing harm, we have driven the sex trade underground. We’ve made it insanely profitable for criminal organizations to engage in human trafficking and sex slavery. Assholes like the one mentioned in the article abuse positions of power to force vulnerable women into sex slavery and keep them there, as they are afraid to seek out help from the authorities. Vice officers, like the asshole in the article end up focused on arresting and jailing the sex workers, ensuring that those sex workers will be afraid and unwilling to cooperate with the police when they either witness or are victims of crime.
It’s long past time that we realize that we accept that Prohibition, in all it’s forms, was a dumb idea. Legalize, regulate and focus on harm reduction, rather than letting a bunch of holier-than-thou assholes try to dictate how others live via the force of government.
My state setup an automatic license plate scanner in an area known for it. Started sending letters to people’s homes with photographs of their car and a notice that they were driving in the area. Fucking creepy as all hell. People being made to feel afraid for the act of driving on a public road. Who knows how many people were just getting gas or going to work at a nightshift getting harassed by Big Brother.