Poll: Should Thai sex workers be legalized?

[Rinrada]

Maybe time for us to get our own acts together first ...5 years ago...

Cmon Gordon get yer finger oot (xcuse pun)

Britons 'spend more on prostitutes than on cinema'

Prostitution in the UK is worth more than three-quarters of a billion pounds a year, new research has suggested.

Researchers at the Royal Economic Society found that £770m is spent on prostitution every year, far more than the £400m Britons spend on going to the cinema.

They estimated that legalising prostitution could help the government to raise £250m a year in extra tax revenue.

Black economy

The researchers collected their figures from internet sites, so it is possible that claims about earnings could have been exaggerated.

Nevertheless, the findings could be of interest to the Treasury, as it struggles to clamp down on the black economy and raise extra taxes.

But the government's advisory group on women's issues has said that economic issues should not be brought into any debate on prostitution.

Legal in Holland

In the Netherlands, prostitution has been recently legalised in an attempt to restrict the black economy and raise money.

Dutch brothels, even when officially banned, had been allowed to operate under lax conditions.

Now they have been made legal and will be treated the same way as any other business, with stricter controls and tougher penalties for abuses such as involuntary and under-age prostitution.

An estimated 30,000 people work as prostitutes in The Netherlands.

UK.Prostitution survey calls for licensing

The survey suggested "tolerance zones" for prostitutes

A magazine survey says licensed red-light districts should be set up to clear prostitution off the streets.

Some 63% of people support the idea of introducing "tolerance zones" - where prostitutes could ply their trade without fear of prosecution - as the best method of cleaning up residential areas with a kerb-crawling problem.

Even more people - 76% - favoured introducing some form of regulation for the sex industry on the basis that it was unlikely the problem would simply go away, according to the NOP Solutions survey carried out for Bella magazine.

Although most people felt urgent action was needed to clear residential areas with vice problems, the majority were tolerant of prostitution itself.

Only 27% believed it should be stamped out altogether.

The survey showed the public were at odds with MPs, who have previously rejected the idea of authorised "tolerance zones" or regulation, said the magazine.

Supporters believe it would help to remove the problems of drugs and crime currently linked with prostitution, as well as protecting people in residential areas - particularly children - from the effects.

However, reports have warned that a model tolerance zone in Utrecht, Holland, became a magnet for drug users and violent clients.

Bella editor-in-chief Jackie Highe said: "Whatever the moral rights and wrongs of prostitution, it's not going to go away.

"Our findings suggest that most people recognise that, while it may not be socially acceptable, it is a social fact."

"Studies indicate that confining prostitution to authorised tolerance zones is no perfect solution, but the public clearly feels it is an infinitely lesser evil than the situation which exists now."

and a local comment..quote from

Carrie Mitchell,

English Collective of Prostitutes

"The state is the biggest pimp"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1271028.stm

[singer]

We hear thaey are shutting down some of the sex areas at 1am.

After an assessment of the balance of payments in one year owing to

a collosal downturn in tourism the government wil change that to 5am.

[chonabot]

Christ! Are you Toxin in disguise then?

[singer]

Christ! Are you Toxin in disguise then?

Perhaps its the sheer breadth of your reading but I often fail to comprehend your remarks. I sometimes think you must be an academic reading classics in your mansion as you sip the local tea but mostly I think you are probably an old fart rotting in a shack whilst downing your last drop of whiskey from a filthy cup.

[dragonmasterzip]

<font color='#000000'>If the government is going to make money off of it, and they are, then I don't believe they should have to register. I do believe in the health checks that Bud Z mentioned, but I don't feel that they should be locked into that profession forever.

Why should you see this any differently than a bus driver who needs a special commercial license to drive a bus. IS this perosn LOCKED into driving a bus?

Make it legal everywhere

Legal in Nevada. Brothels there are clean, well run, no pimps and regular health checks.

Trying to make laws about morals where there is no victim is stupid.

If parents want to push their kids to prostitution after they are biologically mature, well shit there are accountants and dnetists who hate their life because their parents pushed them.

Most of all this BS about sex is all church related. Churches want to keep power out of the hands of women. so sex is bad and wrong unless you do it in the dark, doors locked, no moaning and only to make a new baby which should be raised in that same sick and perverted church.

Churches never follow the teaching of their leaders.

Christ preached love

Church's book of common prays has a prayer to bless a Jeep going into battle.

We do not need to even start on the Muslims do we?

Jihad is a Holy war WITHOUT VIOLENCE

And old Buddah said follow the middle way

NOT sex is bad