Police call to legalise brothels.

[roger_pearse]

But the current status quo is worse. you aren't going to get rid of prostitution so you may as well make it as safe as possible

 

Safer for the pimp, certainly. Not for the women.

[spindrift]

Certainly.

 

 

 

Indeed. Making them the prey of pimps will not aid them.

 

 

 

How very cynical of you. You're proposing to use the new brothels, right? Or just to buy shares in one?

 

 

You prefer the status quo, where women get murdered?

 

And save the cheap jibes, you're like bassman who judges that anyone in favour of a debate on drugs must be a drug user.

[spindrift]

Safer for the pimp, certainly. Not for the women.

 

Know what the murder rate for prostitutes is?

 

There are substantial differences in rates of victimization between street prostitutes and indoor prostitutes who work as escorts, call girls, or in brothels and massage parlors.

 

^ Weitzer R (2005). "New Directions in Research on Prostitution" (PDF). Crime, Law, and Social Change 43 (4-5): 211–35. doi:10.1007/s10611-005-1735-6. http://www.springerlink.com/content/p46r4txv88040p82/fulltext.pdf.

 

 

^ Weitzer, Ronald John (2000). Sex for sale: prostitution, pornography, and the sex industry. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-92294-1.

[roger_pearse]

Know what the murder rate for prostitutes is?

 

You keep on about this. Creating brothels will not solve that problem. It will merely make it worse.

[spindrift]

If I was, why would I oppose something that will allow me to run brothels and beat up the girls without police interference?

 

 

Nobody is recommending the police turn a blind eye to violence against prostitutes, but well done for introducing a straw man so early in the debate.

[spindrift]

You keep on about this. Creating brothels will not solve that problem. It will merely make it worse.

 

Source please.

 

Countries that relax the law around prostitution see lower levels of violence against prostitutes.

 

Cite your evidence if you dispute this.

[roger_pearse]

You prefer the status quo, where women get murdered?

 

I prefer the status quo, where women are not the prey of pimps. The murder of prostitutes, like the industry, will always be with us.

 

And save the cheap jibes <insult>

 

My, we're sensitive. If you don't like being asked why you advocate brothels so strongly, stop advocating them.

[roger_pearse]

Nobody is recommending the police turn a blind eye to violence against prostitutes, but well done for introducing a straw man so early in the debate.

 

You were. And thanks for trying to kick the player, not the ball.

 

You didn't answer the question, I notice: whether you merely want to use brothels or run them.

[roger_pearse]

Countries that relax the law around prostitution see lower levels of violence against prostitutes.

 

Yeah, right!

 

Cite your evidence if you dispute this.

 

I certainly dispute it, and I don't care how much fake statistics you got from the pimps to "prove" otherwise. What brothels do is conceal this sort of stuff, and make it possible for pimps to operate with much less police interference.

[Kaimani]

At the moment it is impossible for a pimp to hide what he is doing. If the woman is a hooker and giving him money, he's nicked. Under the new proposals there are endless ways for such a person to hide his involvement. Renting floor-space, for instance. For practical purposes these proposals will legalise pimping.

 

We've got to look past the spin to see how it would really work. Prostitution is a miserable business. But I don't believe for a moment that the interests behind these proposals give a damn about that.

 

a pimp is only 'nicked' if a prostitute report him. and they are unlikely to do that for a myriad of reasons, chief being they are also participating in an illegal act. legalizing it would mean they could.

it is, indeed a miserable business and needs to be thought out carefully, the current state of affairs can not go on.