ORCACommander wrote:I am partially in favor of legalized prostitution. After all in one way or another we use our bodies to earn a living, why not sex as well.
However such legalization would have to come with some heavy regulation.
While I am very much in favor of legalized prostitution, I am against heavy regulation.
Street prostitution stays illegal. There are a myriad of examples of why this is a terrible thing and is generally used as the entire objection against prostitution outside of the morality sphere.
What are these examples? The reason street prostitution has poor examples of conduct has more to do with the illegality of the service itself rather than this particular implementation of it. I see no reason why street prostitution in particular should remain illegal, especially as economic forces will lead to most prostitutes ending up in brothels anyway.
Historically, brothels have been more economically efficient than street prostitution (only those prostitutes unable or unwilling to ascribe to the conduct or standards in a cat house became street prostitutes) and it was only when prostitution as a whole was made illegal that street prostitution became the pre-eminent form. The illegality of the service is what led to the more egregious exploitation of the prostitutes, not the mode of delivering the service.
Prostitutes should be in a Guild/Union organization.
I disagree here. By all means, if some wish to form a guild or union they can, but government regulation forcing it serves no benefit. Licensing should be all that is required.
Mandatory medical screenings every couple of months or so
Agreed. I don't know the specific statistics, but my gut feeling is that medical screenings every quarter would be sufficient to prevent most STD outbreaks.
Mandatory use of birth control/contraception and and binding contracts that any unexpected pregnancies do not hold the client responsible for parental rights or obligations, especially financial.
Also reasonable. The indemnification of any parental rights would be part of a typical employment contract, I would think.
I wonder how actual legal prostitution services, like the Bunnyland Ranch in Nevada, do that sort of thing? I know all their sex worker employees are considered to be free agent contract workers who merely utilize the Ranch's facilities (they have complete control over what services, to whom, and at what prices they provide to clients with the Ranch getting 30% of the income), but I wonder how their actual employee contracts deal with this kind of thing.
I would prefer if the workplace for this stayed in actual brothels since it would be a more secure environment but i can see the value in the discretion of a house service.
Again, in the past brothels provided the most economically efficient means of providing the service. There's no need to restrict the means; undoubtedly escort services will provide an expensive alternative and I'd be surprised if most brothels wouldn't offer such services as a matter of course. I know that the aforementioned Bunnyland Ranch has escort services available, but any actual intercourse must happen on the Ranch premises (presumably because prostitution would be illegal anywhere else).
A common database of blacklisted clients
I see no reason why this should be mandated. Undoubtedly, such lists would exist in any event, but to require such a thing as part of regulation is overreach.
