should prostitution be legalised in the UK?

yes matt but then that is as good as saying that it is illegal, when apart from the actual exchange of money, everything else, the location and the means are illegal.
that is why i am all for designated areas being set up in order to avoid this infuriating translation of the law which is confusing at best and discriminatory at worst.

 

Depends. As far as I can see the laws are there to prevent problems like streetwalking and large brothels that would encourage a steady stream of men into the area.

Women that work in their own home stay on the right side of the law.

I don't see a lot wrong with that. I have no moral objection until it starts to cause problems in the local area which streetwalking, curb crawling and large brothels would bring.

 

very few prostitutes are homeowners, so working from home is not an option.
and as i stated there should be a designated area where brothels are run in strict adherence to government outlines. curb crawling is of course to be discouraged, but if redlight areas were approved legally then there would be no need for it.

 

So where do they live?

 

seedy rented accommodation, with scores of other girls, better known as brothels.

 

Some one's got a very stereotypical view of prostitutes

 

Prostitution would cause a decrease in Aids and other diseases, it should be not Banned, its not Immoral!

 

However prostitutes are mostly drug addicts or similar i don't believe they would be handing money over willingly as plumbers for example.

It still happens regardless of the legal status.

 

Prostitution is very heavy abuse on the womans body and mind. The prostitute are doing it because she have problems, finacially or mentally too. As civilized people we should never allow such horrible abuse.
And its not true that prostitutes are mostly drug addicts. In europe they are mostly african and east european girls that are brought here by pimps. The traditional junkie hooker is not getting customers any more so that that prostitutes are mostly drug addicts is a myth.

 

Login we are talking about willing prostitutes, these are mostly drug addicts.


Pimps forcing women into to prostitution will always be committing a crime even if prostitution was legal.

 

I am talking of willing prostitutes also. I talk about all of them. Willing is a very very relative term when coming to prostitutes. Why are they willing? thats the question. They are willing because they are forced, forced by bad economy often combined with mental problems or forced by a man or forced by drug addiction also combined with mental illness.

 

Let me re-phrase; The ones who do "it" of their own free will (although not totally of their own free will 'due to circumstances') do it because they are mostly drug addicts & my original point was these people are not going to be throwing money away to the tax man.

 

The government can never catch them all. It is scientifically impossible. I hate the income tax charged here in the U.S., so if the tax suddenly vanished, I wouldn't be sad about it.

Taxes rob the people and make the government rich. Yeah, "some" of the taxes go towards roads, schools, and that kind of thing. But the UK government wastes a lot of money just like the American government, and most of the taxes don't benefit the public. The idea that taxes help the public is propaganda made by governments who get to blow money on whatever they want.

The governments of the UK and US waste so much money, and if they did it right, many of the nations problems would be solved. I don't know about the UK, but our national debt is so big here in the states that all the income taxes we pay only goes toward the "interest" on the national debt, and doesn't touch the principle.

Yeah, you're right, but you should also consider that not all of these women do drugs. Some pay their way through college. A pretty girl can make a pretty penny in this business. Hell, some make six figure salaries. The girls who are smart and pretty make more money per hour than lawyers or judges.