A jobs a job! (Should prostitution be legalised?)

Member Name: thedevilinme

Product:	Should prostitution be legalised?
Date:	08/09/09 (109 review reads)
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Advantages: Its a business

Disadvantages: We are all involved in it in some way

Like everything else in Britain, Prostitution has become multicultural, girls from Kenya to Lithuanian, the Philippines to Russia, here to service the men that cant get a woman, or lumbered with the same one, the hubbies weekly illicit dip keeping the marriage together, saving on the same hourly rate as a divorce layer would charge, some would say. That why it's the oldest profession in the world.

With the opening up of the new Europe the girls have come east and now dominate our lap dancing trade and certain aspects of prostitution, joining the last wave from South America and South East Asia to plump up the sex trade with a bit of exotic. The Eastern European serge has been very welcome by the men who use them, no doubt, and indeed the pimps as it's freshened up what had become an industry riddled with drug addicts and damaged people, culminating in the Peterborough serial killings not three years ago. Although the girls of that town learnt a harsh lesson they already knew, they were always going to take that risk when they work the streets, and, indeed are still doing it now. Those girls are desperate drug addicts that need to score client after client to get their fix and so not that picky who the guys are, some of their punters even paying them in drugs to manipulate them even more.

We have seen recent high profile raids of brothels across the U.K where we are told by the authorities and the media that the majority of the girls are trafficked, yet many of the nationalities in them can easily get in with student visas or jump on National Expresski from Warsaw or Vilnius. In my opinion the numbers trafficked in the industry is talked up by charities and feminist groups who need the publicity, they usually dealing with the abused women of the sex trade and so angry with men, but not willing to accept that lots of women in the sex trade quite simply want to work in the business, crossing many borders, and perhaps not wanting to do the 6-2 factory shift or work in Tescos shelf filling on minimum wage all week. Some of the girls who work in the pole dancing clubs can make pretty good money for the hours they work and it's so popular now that the girls have to actually buy their space in the club and work for tips. Although many deny they sell their bodies to clients after their shift that's what goes on there, the money going up a lot more if they do. Some women quite simply enjoy the sex trade money as it's quite lucrative and that seems to offend women's groups who are blinkered and only want to accuse men of abuse and exploitation.

I recall a well publicised raid in Birmingham where the girls were said to have been 'chained in rooms' and held captive behind 'electric fences', yet when the dust died down a few days later we discover that 13 of the women were released when it turned out that they were 'voluntarily working in the sex industry'; the remaining six, who also denied having been trafficked, were imprisoned at Yarlswood detention centre in Bedfordshire and threatened with deportation because of 'visa irregularities'. Now I have no proof but I suspect this is normal when these raids take place across the country, more show events to make it look like the local police are on top of things than doing actual police work.

It's not a nice thought for some but many girls chose the sex trade for the money and as far as I'm concerned it's patronising to say they aren't capable of choice. The idea that British guys wouldn't have noticed the chains, or, indeed the girls not telling them about the chains, seems absurd. In fact many of the girls who make trafficking claims of abuse use the eventual arrest to try and secure green card immigration status in the U.K., so they can't be sent back to their country of origin under those human rights laws. There are even compensation payouts to girls who are proven to be trafficked. The loop-hole which allows the girls to claim they have been trafficked is likely to be closed down by the Home Secretary. It was the same again in Wales were 88 girls of legal age were taken into custody after coordinated raids by the police of which 76 "disappeared" from social services soon after.

Where I do get angry is when kids from places like Thailand and Brazil are trafficked here to service scum that prefer to pay for their paedophilia. This is where I would throw taxpayers money at it big time. Kids under 14 are innocent of everything in my book and its adults that make them do what they do. Admittedly we export our paedophiles to the same countries and we are just as bad, Gary Glitter the poster boy, but at least we can stop it going on here. There's even talk of under age British girls being trafficked in the U.K for sex after being befriended by local lads with gifts like cell phone credit and cinema tickets, but as it's a niche crime and involves a specific group of British citizens, to avoid controversy and offence here I wont be mentioning it any more. I have learnt my lesson on the levels of increasing dooyoo censorship.

I do accept plenty of abuse goes on in the sex trade and it's built on some low class establishments in likewise areas but in most cases it's still a woman's choice to go on the game, be they local or from overseas. The girls who are genuinely trafficked here tend to be from South East Asia or Africa and are often victims of brutal snakehead and Nigerian crime gangs, their very own communities in our big cities the cover. But it's also an immigration route lots of girls are willing to take to earn a better life in the west, many tricked over that way. And let's also not forget many foreign girls are here to service the growing waves of immigrants to the U.K. who want their 'home comforts'...Polish gals for Polish guys... Ask yourself what happens to these thousands of women in the sex trade when they get older? The morgues are not fall of them and they don't all end up as internet/ mail order brides for men from Essex. This is an illegal industry that allows attractive women to make a lot of money if they are prepared to sell their bodies and soul. Morally I think they have the right to do that, as indeed gay men have in male prostitution. But I don't think it's the raw exploitation certain people love to paint it.

The most common reasons for girls to go on the game are mixed, some because they just need money to pay debts and the bills, single mums often working out of their council flats to find money for their kids even. Drug addiction, of course, is the big one, as is a nasty boyfriend who pimps her out for money for his particular addictions. On the other hand some of the older girls probably quite enjoy their regulars and can live another life outside of the vice trade. Generally though its desperation that takes girls to the streets.

Not all prostitution takes place on street corners, the internet and cable TV the new 'cyber' phone box' to post your calling cards. In America the porn industry is bigger than Hollywood with big name legit corporations investing in them, all be it indirectly in many cases. Just as The Church of England has been known to invest in arms companies here, £20 million in one, the big hotel chains and media companies like Sky and Virgin Media profit from porn films that play on their pay-per-view channels in the customer rooms. The Catholic Church in the US invests millions in well known companies in their pension's funds, just as every other pension fund does, but its parishioners not aware that those big companies invest in porn through those cables stations and hotel chains they buy stocks in. It's a question of morals and I'm afraid we don't have many, some 70 million searches a DAY in the UK alone on Google that involved porn keywords. We use one hand to do our naughty business in front of the internet at night and the other to push the sex trade away from our responsibility. We enjoy free porn yet call the girls on the street all manner of names. All men (and some women)look at porn on the internet and so we are all hypocrites in some way if we are against legalising prostitution.

On legalisation I would say it already is, the girls able to sell their services subtly on the internet and in local classifieds anyway. The question is if it was legal with thousands of legit brothels across the land like it is in Australia would the girls actually embrace that and be keen on paying tax on their earnings and stick to the rules? If you're a drug addict you can't work in brothels in Australia and the same rule is loosely applied to massage parlours here. Plenty of girls would still be outside the system. Would the guys want to be monitored like they are in hoar houses in America, an incriminating database indeed.

The plusses are keeping these girls safe in warden controlled buildings and increasing good health practice. The girls may have sexually transmitted diseases and so regular health checks would help in legal brothels, mandatory A.I.D.s test happening in the adult movie industry here and so it could bring down infection rates in prostitutes. You can never make people use condoms and so any rule that would enforce that helpful.

-Feminist point of view-

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Summary: Girls are as complicit asvmen.