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As others have said, it's not for lack of trying . . .

A word of caution. In the U.S., asking for sugar on your stick is only legal in Nevada and Rhode Island.

Does society collapse when a hooker gets beaten up by a weirdo? Does society collapse when a bunch of Chinese girls get brought over in a shipping crate to work in a brothel? Does society collapse when a college girl's boyfriend tells her that if she wants to keep the coke coming she needs to turn a few tricks, and it will only be just once or twice? Or, when these things happen, does society just keep on humming the way it always has and nobody needs to give a damn, yet alone raise a finger?

The happening of the hypotheticals offered above are signs that civil society has already collapsed, not that it will. Our best hope to attain fundamental human rights is to offer empathy and compassion for the victims of a system of justice that goes to great lengths to exclude them from access to justice, and counter the prevailing public opinion and mass media that holds victims culpable for their unavoidable misfortunes.

The problem I have is not with prostitution per se, but with half-assed attempts to decriminalize prostitution that contribute to making the situation worse. There's a lot of human misery involved in the sex trade right now. Maybe legalizing prostitution will do away with all of it -- for the sake of argument, let's assume that it will. But until prostitution is really and honestly legalized, for Craigslist to allow posting of prostitution ads now is to support the sex trade as it exists right now, and I can't say I'm really for that.

Flouting the law undermines the integrity of the law - people will question whether the law is an authority. However, enforcing immoral laws also undermine the integrity of the law - people will question whether the law creates justice. Flouting an immoral law in certain circumstances could lead to less harm to the integrity of the law.

Incidentally, prostitution is legal in a number of states where Craigslist operates, including Canada.

Nah, they are probably just out after the sex:
http://sexwork.com/family/dolphins1.html

OMG, it's you. You fuck with the dolphins.

I must tell you, I thought I would never have met someone like you. You have convinced me to not divorce my wife when I realized she was a sea cow.

Prostitution is legal in most of Europe as well as Canada.

Please back that up with some documentation.

Come on dude, about a million web pages back it up in one way or another. But here's one that spells it out in simple black and white in the first few sentences.

Are you sure? Maybe that would explain this!

"Your analogy is flawed. Homosexual love is harmless and consensual, unlike the beastialy or pedophilia. " I'm confused, your saying that animals cannot consent to sex? I think this person would disagree: http://www.sexwork.com/family/dolphins1.html/
Also he said Brothers and sisters, and children, he didn't say anything about Pedophilia...
Are you saying that homosexual sex is OK but not sex between brother and sister, man and dolphin? What makes this distinction? Just the fact of it being consensual? What decides what is "harmful" in this context?

http://www.sexwork.com/family/dolphins1.html

This old troll copy/paste seems eerily on-topic.

Licensing Fees for a brothel? Just what country are you talking about? Cause I doubt it's America or Australia.

(Possibly NSFW) Yeah, 'cause there are no licensed brothels in Australia.

Also, I wouldn't count on pussy in your face/lap at a titty bar. Last time I checked around here, the places that were all nude weren't allowed to serve alcohol.

You need to take a road trip to Canada, either Toronto or Montreal.

http://www.merc.ca/vbulletin/
http://www.terb.ca/
http://www.sexwork.com/montreal/

Just one more reason Canada is the new home of the Free.