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In reply to the discussion: Should prostitution be legal, or illegal? [View all]limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)A full employment situation where everybody's basic needs are met and people don't live in fear because of their precarious economic situations. Then I think you'll see a lot less prostitution. Banning it probably just creates a black market and a dangerous situation. So I think it should be legal. But I also don't think it's to be celebrated. I have a problem with it as I don't like the idea of people being forced into selling their body as a commodity. Some may say it is not forced, it is a choice. But there may different ideas abut what constitutes force. I think you'll find that most prostitutes come from low income backgrounds. Not too many rich people go into prostitution as a career choice. People are compelled into selling their bodies because they need money. So even though the poll question says 'no coercion involved', I think there may be always be some economic coercion at work.
Somebody may say a construction worker also sells their body for money, so what's the difference. But selling one's body for sex strikes me as a rather more dramatic and desperate act than selling it for general labor.