I happened to be glancing through channels on cable today and there was a TV show called The Client List..... About yes, prostitution.. It got me to thinking.
Let's be clear, I am not speaking about human trafficking or prostitution by minors or forced prostitution, but two adults consenting. One offering a service and the other paying for that service. It is like my views on so many other things like homosexuality. I really don't think a small minority should determine what two consenting adults can or cannot do in the privacy of their home, once it is not hurting innocent bystanders. I have to think that somewhere religion and only religion has played a part in making many nations if not most nations have a law making prostitution illegal. Clearly I don't agree with the law, just never really thought of it before today.
Searches in Google led me to this quote from George Carlin:
"I don't understand why prostitution is illegal. Why should prostitution be illegal? Selling is legal, f@#$%^^ is legal. Why isn't selling f@#$%^& legal? After all, giving somebody an orgasm is hardly the worst thing you can do to them!" - George Carlin
Of course it may become a slippery slope, this argument of mine that what a consenting adult does, once it isn't affecting innocent bystanders, should not be set by a minority, when one thinks of selling body parts....that will have to wait for another blog :-)
rsp
p.s.
you got to love Google and Wikipedia, I found these links informative, and I am sure there are thousands of others:
What Countries is it legal
Prostitution.org? (ok dokey)
Wikipedia
for the record I have never knowingly/explicitly/overtly paid for sex.
rsp
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