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Craigslist Agrees With State AGs To Curb "Erotic Services" Ads
The New York Times reports that Craigslist has reached an agreement with 40 state attorneys general to tame its notoriously unruly "erotic services" listings. Clever diplomacy: according to the article, Craigslist "said that it will charge erotic services vendors a small fee for each ad — about $10, Mr. Buckmaster said — and require that they use a credit card for the payment. It will donate the money to charities that combat child exploitation and human trafficking. This, theoretically, will let the company confirm not just a phone number but also an identity." I hope they work on cleaning the weird spammers from the ordinary personal ads, too.
Amen. The spammers from the ordinary personal adds are really dirty and urgently require cleaning of any kind. You'd think these guys are allergic to showers...
Putting hookers back on the streets is good why?
This will just push the pros into the personals, though if Craigslist starts charging for personals as well they'll make a lot more money.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
As long as they don't mess with continued additions to the best of craigslist I'm ok with the changes
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Well, I doubt they're allergic to golden showers. :-)
pop quiz: does making it illegal make prostitution more or less susceptible to criminal influence?
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Prostitution on the other hand is completely different. There is no way to go back in time and suddenly make it part of society and acceptable. Even in certain past times when it was "acceptable" it was almost entirely in societies and were on the verge of failing with their eventual downfall not fall behind.
Lol. Shows what you know. Prostitution is legal in most of Europe as well as Canada.
It's not called the world's oldest profession as a joke.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
In the few places where it is legal in the U.S., such as Nevada, the commercial operations show a very different side of the coin.
The workers tend to be happy, they make a good income, AIDS is simply unknown, and other diseases are extremely rare. They get regular tests and medical checkups. Nobody has to "see" anybody they don't want to. Beating the girls does not happen... nobody would work there, and the beater would go to jail. The owners and operators simply do not tolerate that kind of bullshit.
You can say that the vast majority are mistreated... but that same majority are doing it ILLEGALLY on the streets. If you honestly compare where it is legal and where it is not, the story is vastly different.
Keeping prostitution illegal is misguided and based on a puritanical ideal that has never, and will never, be achieved.
I'm against pre-marital sex, and that prostitution is a waste of money, but I also realize that I live in a free country and my personal standard is not everybody's standards and I have no right to force that upon them.
With that in mind I believe I can say that I agree with you because legalizing prostitution means that it can be properly and formally regulated to prevent the spread of STDs and other potential strings that may come attached (although I suppose that if you go looking for sex from strangers then you'd be willing to take that risk).
A good example might be the prohibition of alcohol during the 1920's and all the promises that overly self-righteous people said that would come with it. So much for those promises because the prohibition brought with it an expansion of organized crime and poisonous moonshine liqueur. The prohibition created more violence and crime then it was ever promised to save.
"Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal?"
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