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Name: Skip
Location: Capital City, NC
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Date: January 11, 2005Comments
Right on. Keep working to get this issue taken care of. There's absolutely nothing wrong with prostitution. It's funny how a woman can get paid to have sex in front of a camera and it's legal. But take a way the camera and it's illegal. What's wrong here.
Name: Kristen
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Date: January 10, 2005Comments
Great site and very thought provoking. If only our moralistic political leaders would understand the excellent points that you make. Keep working for justice!
Name: mugu muhhamed alison paul
Location: togo
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Email: mugu_muhhamed@yahoo.com
Date: November 28, 2004Comments
guys this site realy reveals the truth about so much thing that you dont know i love this site its cool keep up the good work ok its lovely.
Name: Blackie Bongamino
Location: Witness Protection Program
Website: http://www.geocities.com/bdcaterino
Email: InHiding@aol.com
Date: November 25, 2004Comments
You are right. Prostitution should be legal. It is not fair that sex should be legeslated. well anyway I have my regular so iF yoU C Kay tell her I was looking for a quickie.
Name: CJ
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Email: vnoxycheq@fastmail.fm
Date: November 21, 2004Comments
Great site
Name: Jenna
Location: USA
Website: http://www.angelfire.com/vamp/jennasdillema
Email: jennasdillema@yahoo.com
Date: November 14, 2004Comments
I totally agree with legalized prostitution. If I was not afraid of being arrested. I would be able to earn my boob job quickly and keep dancing to support my kids. Please visit my site to read my story. I should have the right to take care of my kids without being forced on welfare.
Name: jamesbond49
Location: us
Website: ohio
Email: jedkoko@direcway.com
Date: September 24, 2004Comments
Dave, Your healthy attitude toward sex is mature and in line with many of my own convictions. I'm a retired teacher who advocates touching as a healant in the classroom; although frowned upon by many--very therapeutic and necessary amongst high school age students who loved receiving and giving me hugs. Keep up the good work and I hope to use many of your ideas upon my wife of 35 years. I would like to learn how to administer the esalen massage upon my wife; it will enhance our relationship--I'm sure!! Thanx a million!! :-)
Name: Rachav
Location: canaan
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Email: Rachav888@aol.com
Date: September 17, 2004Comments
In many U.S. cities, sex clubs legally exist. Couples who choose to share their partner with multiple partners as a lifestyle do so without the concern of breaking any laws.' Yet , one of the moral implications for not legalizing or decriminalizing prostitution is that it breaks down the family structure. However, decriminalization of sex work, in my opinion, is not the only point. It's monetary. Men and women can choose to have several sexual partners and practise thier avocation in a legal working enviroment or bussiness specifically designed for that purpose. Since this type of sexual promisuity and the concerns the go with it, not unlike prostitution, are not illicit, then the illegal and immoral exchange of money, not sex with multiple partners' nor sex with a prostitute who chooses this work freely is guilty.
Name: Angela Burston
Location: UK
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Email: angela_burston@yahoo.co.uk
Date: June 05, 2004Comments
You have the right idea, legalised prostitution works well where it is properly regulated, it is the right way to go.
Name: Tony
Location: UK
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Date: May 22, 2004Comments
I wholly support your aims and attitudes. Here in UK prostitution is not illegal but solictiting for it is. This leads to poor women on the streets having no alternative but to go out working again to pay the fines the stupid system imposes on them. These police resource would be better used to crack down on real crime of which we have plenty.
Name: ALEX
Location: USA
Website: http://www.allpictures.biz
Email: kdsjf@spppos.com
Date: April 27, 2004Comments
it's very interesting site!
Name: Jay Solomon
Location: US
Website: http://escortland.blogspot.com
Email: jaybirdblog@yahoo.com
Date: April 07, 2004Comments
I know a number of gentlmen in my suburban community who like me are family men, taxpayers, model citizens in every resect -- and we are de facto criminals because of our antiquated laws against paying for sex.
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Name: PION (Prostitutes interest organisation in Norway)
Location: Oslo, Norway
Website: Not yet
Email: pion2@online.no
Date: February 19, 2004Comments
Name: Matthew The Stud
Location: Florida
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Email: matt910@hotmail.com
Date: December 01, 2003Comments
i think that the decriminalization of prostitution is a great idea. not only would old men who can't get any be able to pay for sex but they would be able to go on with their lives knowing that they just got laid the night before. this would make them very happy.
Name: Heidi
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Website: www.silencedvictims.bravehost.com
Email: heidibaker17@hotmail.com
Date: November 05, 2003Comments
Violence against prostitutes is an issue that has plagued our society for centuries. I myself am supportive of decriminalization as it is a step towards a solution to prevent victimization. By stepping outside the normal parameters of legal control prostitutes are frequently denied the protection against violence normally afforded by the legal system. The illegality of prostitution constructs a status to prostitutes to justify punishing the outlaw prostitute by marginalization and dismissal. This is a blatantly discriminatory, random and corrupt use or non-use of the law that is often justified due to the semi-legal status of prostitution. The semi-legality of prostitution conveys official sanction of category unworthiness of prostitute victims. It has been widely demonstrated by the justice system that when the victim category is constituted as that of prostitute women, there is little concern among law enforcement personnel. I have designed a website that presents the research I have gathered on violence against sex workers. We have witnessed its extent in both the Green River and Vancouver cases. I invite you to check out the website and participate in this forum. It is my aim to help in the effort to bring attention to this subject. www.silencedvictims.bravehost.com
Name: don grigg
Location: Lansing, Michigan
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Email: dndgrg@acd.net
Date: November 03, 2003Comments
I don't know where to get my needs met in Lansing, MI. It seems to be very strict surveilance is in place.
Name: John Blakeney
Location: washington d.c
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Email: Johnblak@aol.com
Date: September 27, 2003Comments
I agree with your concept of wasting our tax dollars to destroy someone life that performs an act between to consenting adult. The fact that you are an adult makes it your decission and your business. If a person wants the services of a prostitute they will do what ever is necessary. I do strongly belive that health service like STD and AIDS test should perform on a regular bases. Also prostitues should be taxed amd monies should be set aside for training and education. There should be manditory sentencing for pimps , that encourage underage children to become prostitues.
Name: John David Maher
Location: Bentonville, Arkansas
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Email: jftdv@netscape.net
Date: September 24, 2003Comments
I was surfing the web and found your site. I am for legalized prostitution, with certain restrictions. Noone under 21 be allowed to work in the sex industry, in restricted/zoned areas, only in bordellos, away from main roads and highways, periodic medical exams, etc. I am 49 years old and divorced. I used to live in Reno, Nevada. I had been without any sex relations for almost two years and was headed for some very serious mental problems. After considering suicide, I broke down and went to the Mustang Ranch a few years befor it was closed down. It Saved My Life! I prayed, fasted, went to church, but was getting more screwed up. The "imperious urge" was dragging me down. I ended up going to Mustang and other bordellos once a month. It was great, and a sense of relief. Most of the girls were there because they wanted to be. I never picked the younger looking girls. I like women that know what they are doing. Where I live now, it is terrible. The law enforcement people here spend more time trying to bust prostitutes, yet they cannot find the prpetrators of kiddie porn and pedophiles. Too much time is spent on trying to control the actions of consenting adults. Priorities have got to change!
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Date: August 02, 2003Comments
Interesting site. I logged on out of curiosity to see where in the world prostitution is legal. I am not involved in sex work, but a relative of mine is. I worry for her sometimes but she seems to know what she is doing. Thank you for your information. It solved a lot of worries for me.
Name: Spleen Fiend
Location: Phoenix
Website: www.geocities.com/knbx2
Email: SpleenFiend@hotmail.com
Date: June 20, 2003Comments
In the words of the great George Carlin "Fucking is legal and selling is legal, so why isn't selling fucking legal?!" The US government encourages crime. Logically think about some of the things that are illegal in this country and what would happen if they became legal and regulated. Elimination is never a solution. Take pot for example, what would happen if marrijuna ciggarettes appeared on store shelves across america right next to tobbac and regulated with simmilar laws as tobbaco or alcahol? Dope dealer would be out of a job! Same with prositution. Legalize it, set health standards, allow legal bussiness to sell sex, hell the governement could even tax it and crime rates would lower. The amount of hookers getting AIDs, being shot, kidknapped, beaten up by pimps, and murder would drop like a lead balloon.
Name: Me
Location: Louisville
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Date: March 11, 2003Comments
If prostitution is getting paid to have sex, and porn stars are getting paid to have sex, then why is pornography legal (in most states) and prostitution illegal?
Dave says: See http://www.sexwork.com/whatisnew/pornorprostitution.html I will also be adding some updated comments to it shortlly.
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Location: winston salem, nc
Website: yahoo.com
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Date: February 02, 2003Comments
I think the site is good . No sex for sale in this area of North Carolina.
Name: C
Location: Santa Barbara
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Date: January 24, 2003Comments
On a positive note - to get around prostitution laws - what if we exchanged something - like a book, a piece of jewelry - anything - that would constitute a "sale" - and the sex was just a thank you for buying? Simply get a business license to sell whatever - and keep accounting records - showing amazing profits selling whatever ;) Any legals out there that would know how to make this idea work? (I really don't know how that double post happened - maybe a subliminal dp ;) ;)
Name: C
Location: Santa Barbara
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Date: January 24, 2003Comments
Does anyone else here feel that this country has become the dictatorship we fought against? Bush got the minority vote - yet he took the Presidency. Now he wants to go to war with someone HIS father is pissed at - even though the majority of people in the US and world don't want war. There are laws about sex being made and enforced by people who break those same laws. Its a hypocritical society we live in - and its time for a change.
Name: Sorry Kantsay
Location: New Jersey
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Date: January 08, 2003Comments
As a physician, it's bothered my for many years that one group can for its own version of morality on others with such terrible results. Instead of a business that maintains health standards, protects its employees (prostitutes) and customers from physical violence, offers a service many times for people that are unfortunate enough to not have access to sex elsewhere, and generates tax dollars our society has turned sex between consenting adults into a dirty, dangerous, unhealthy, and illegal act with a social stigma. As far as I can tell, if you believe in the separation of church and state (with its extension to the separation of the imposition of one group's moral judgements on another) there is no valid reason to keep prostitution illegal. Unfortunately, prostitutes do not have a strong voice to support their cause and politicians that support legalization would be vilified. I believe that Jessie Ventura has spoken on this subject but I have not heard more about this in the past year. Hats off to you to take up this cause. I would be glad to support such a cause with a donation but, alas, anonymously.
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Date: January 03, 2003Comments
you say: "Sexual frustration results in men that become aggressive and are far more likely to sexually harass, abuse or rape women than men who are sexually happy and fulfilled." That is how it will fall. The time is ripe for a focused campaign. Slogan: "Prevent child sexual abuse. Decriminalize prostitution now." Prohibition always fails. Remember the 18th amendment fiasco? It fostered not sobriety and security but mayhem and bloodshed. The 18th amendment was in fact the enabling legislation for organized crime, the Purple Gang, the Mafioso, etc. And look what fruitage the seeds of unscriptural and oppressive tradition of priest celebacy [1 Timothy 3:2 says they should be husbands of a wife] has born. The current revelation of pedophilia involving priests is most certainly linked to their perverted lifestyle of deprivation. A new slogan: "Sexual deprivation leads to sexual depravity and predation!" Same argument applies to drugs. Drug use does not cause driveby shooting related to turf protection. THey are not 'drug-related crimes' but rather are drug-POLICY related killings/crimes. Without prohibition, their would be no street value, no turf to fight over, no high priced habit to steal and rob to support. But hey, who would not need the cops if they did not have these policy-created pretextual crimes? Sexual massages are theraputic too. It is a mental as well as physical health issue. People are entitled to stress relief and studies show that people who have regular sexual experiences live linger. The government has no right to deprive someone of their life so prohibitions on consensual sexual release is a violation of civil and human right, as supposedly protected by the US constitution. I could so on, but run with that for now :)
Name: ingrid
Location: las vegas
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Email: ingridjms@cs.com
Date: December 09, 2002Comments
I have been researching the suggestion for legalizing prostitution for a college class and this web site has given much to think about. Here in Nevada, prostutution is legal in certain areas and it has not hurt the morality of our State. The women who work in Nevada's brothels are protected. I would like to see that same protection extend to those who walk the streets as well. The information I found about the Netherlands was very helpful in preparing my speech for class and I thank you for this web site and your efforts to look after women who have to work for a living. Many women enter this line of work to support their families because of a lack of education or opportunities for something else. I am fortunate enough that I don't have do that line of work but I also know that if I had no other way to support my family, I would do it. Such women do not deserve our discust but our respect. Kudos for your strength and courage.
Name: Joe Schmoe
Location: Atlanta GA
Website: www.lp.org
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Date: September 25, 2002Comments
Nicely done. I am pleased every time I see one more person making an effort to free the oppressed people of this country. Vote Libertarian and see it done.
Name: Kang
Location: Boston
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Email: kanglu@hotmail.com
Date: July 30, 2002Comments
I agree, prostitution should be legal - nothing wrong with consensual jamming. But I always though prostitution WAS legal in AZ. Could you tell me if that's true? A well regulated, taxed business like prostitution will [probably] reduce the spread of HIV and other STDs.
Name: Steve
Location: Tallahassee, Florida
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Email: sarnold1@hotmail.com
Date: July 06, 2002Comments
Dave: Your time has come. With a real war going on after 9/11, it's time to put police resources where they really belong. I've done criminal defense work and it is nauseating how many men have had their lives ruined with prostitution stings. That's not justice, just showmanship and posturing. Steve
Name: tony B
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
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Email: proserv394@yahoo.com
Date: July 05, 2002Comments
I live in Nashville Tn. A city known for having the best brawdy houses in the USA. Some of the 40 some business has been in business for 10-20-30 and 40 years. A month or so ago. The police closed every business down using some codes and nusiances laws that are totally boggas. All they did was waste the tax payers money. No one was charge and in most cases the cops lied to get what they wanted. Not only did it cost a lot of money but a lot of money is not going into the econmy and to the tax man. I figure about 10million plus a year, and over a million for taxes is lost. I personally owned a business. I have gone to court like three times and the case which is misdameanor has been put off. mean while the cops get time and a half over time with a min of 3 hours or so. I hope reforms come soon. Most of the people who work for me are losing their homes and cars they cant afford day care for their children. over all this has made it hard for some people. Meanwhile the sad thing is that this has been going on forever in Nashville now all of sudden they closed everyone down. This was done at tax payers expense to further someones polictical career. go figure.
Name: Sarah
Location: Massachusetts
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Email: frmhere2eternity@aol.com
Date: April 07, 2002Comments
I think prostitution should be legal. I am doing a report on the legalization of prostitution and I wanted to interview some people and tape record it for the presentation part of my report, so does anyone have any ideas of who I could interview? In the New England area? a politician perhaps?? Thanks....Sarah
Name: M
Location: Northeast
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Email: mvl27@aol.com
Date: January 02, 2002
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Dave, I'm very familiar with Liberated Christians and favor the work you do there. This is even more important work.There are many women working almost invisibly i the field. The only ones seen in public are the drug addicts and others who have been made into criminals. Legalize it and leave it alone. Women who chose to do so will drift into and out of the business on their own. If they want to work independently, with a pimp, a brothel, escort service or any other means of making their availibility known is their choice.
Women do not sell their bodies or souls. They sell a service to others willing to buy it. The same is true for men selling to women (or other men). For the benifit of those government says it wishes to protect thses laws must be repealed.
M
Name: Ross
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Date: May 02, 2001
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Although I have never been involved in one nor know anyone who has, decriminalizing this practice will be extremly difficult. It will take many many years for society to change its views toward it. You must first gain the support the majority of americans before you can successfully decriminalize it. Even if it is decriminalized, there will be thounds, if not hundrends of thounds, of activists that will be against it. Like abortion, this issue is a hot potato nobody, in middle class america, wants to touch. This is still taboo---nobody wants to talk about or even think about it.
Taboos are hard to break.
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Email: KlawsVB@aol.com
Date: March 11, 2001
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Should try to reinforce the argument with the backing of more quantitative methods. These methods could add further legitimacy by showing government statistics, or other accepted official statistics, illustrating the crime impact of street prostitutes on the community or lack there of.
I enjoyed your site.
Name: Bernard Long
Location: Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo
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Email: bernardlong@hotmail.com
Date: February 26, 2001
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I am a 61-year-old Englishman who has spent most of his adult life in Southeast Asia. I have frequented the bars and brothels of many countries and still do. I have always treated the girls I met with respect and found that, in most cases, they responded in kind. I have struck up some great friendships with some of these girls. I strongly endorse your programme of making prostitution a legal, respected and honoured profession and if there is anything I can do to help from my corner of the world will be glad to do so. best regards. Bernard.
I am an ex-catholic. but it is always in the blood!! anyhow, I am an escort, and a lot of the views about prostitution, and escorting, or whatever you want to call it, seem to be very contradictory, and on a very limited basis. it does need to be decriminalized, but also, i would not like to see a lot of "brothels" or agencies or anything else run by men. sorry for being biased here, but I think that women should run the businesses. a lot of men exploit this business when they say they are trying to help the girls. and i know there are some women who exploit the girls too. but most escorts now, can take care of themselves. i would also NOT like to see the government getting involved and starting to tax if it were legal. I think the majority of independent escorts know what they are doing, and run clean and good businesses, and know how to treat their clients, and stay out of trouble. I would like to see more help being given to the girls on the street who really need it, and need to get off drugs. a lot of those girls end up dying on the streets, and no one helps them. this is just my opinion. please visit my site, and see what it is like. it is a good place- a forum to hopefully help people who have sex related issues, and problems and need to talk about them. great site this one. i wish i had more time to read it all. thanks and take care. sincerely; Diane. :)))
I am a born-again Christian and a conservative, pro-life Republican and I agree with you that prostitution should be legal. Although I am morally against prostitution, its not any worse than any other sex outside of marriage. Although I do not believe in the Evangelical cliche that "all sins are equal" (the bible clearly refutes this claim), I don't believe that paying for or selling sex amplifies the sin of having sex outside of marriage. Hence, having laws against prostitution without also having laws against all pre-marital sex is extremely hypocritical. And besides, with prostitution, both parties are consenting. How can anything that is mutually consentual (and that doesn't even have any indirect effects on the well-being of others) be illegal? I don't think that homosexuality, which I believe (and the bible supports me) to be a worse sin than an unmarried guy paying an unmarried woman to have sex should be illegal, so I certainly don't think that prostitution should be illegal. The vast majority of people who favor keeping prostitution illegal are self-righteous hypocrites! Abortion is legal in this country, but prostitution and sports gambling are illegal. Go figure. Where's the consistency? I support your cause, and if I can support your movement in any way (e.g. by signing a petition) feel more than free to e-mail me.
I am 100% behind you. I am a part time sex worker but fear getting caught otherwise I would work full time. I will move to the Seattle area next year. I do not speak enough Japanese to find a good sex wprker job here in Japan so I travel to the States occasionally to work.
The only crime regarding the profession of prostitution is the close-mindedness of those who persecute prostitutes, johns, and those in favor of decriminalization. If those "hateful human beings" like to pay so much in their tax dollars for the jailing of prostitutes and their customers, they alone should pay the financial cost for keeping prostitution illegal. By the way, prostitutes are more honest and ten times more decent than 99% of all politicians, who bear much of the responsibility for the ignorant sex laws currently in the books.
Prostitution should not be a criminal act, but viewed as simply a service. For example, I am an otherwise lawabiding citizen, divorced and living alone by choice. When I seek a sexual outlet, current law criminalizes me, and I risk (though I take precautions)exposure to disease. Prostitution should be legalized. By keeping it criminalized, the government simply turns a blind eye to the fact that men will still seek it out, running the risks I stated above. By doing so, they are harming the citizens they are supposed to be serving. I realize decriminalization would be a politically difficult action and that many families in the area have legitimate concerns about exposing their children to prostitution; however with current law, it is open on the streets, in view of everyone. Suggestion to the Phoenix City Counsel would be to designate an area as an open zone. The area would be low profile, for example, in an industrial zone so it wouldn't interfere with families. Prostitutes working legally in the zone could be required to have regular check ups to minimize the possibility of transmitting an STD. The service could also be taxed. I see the benefits as: decriminalizing otherwise lawabiding citizens, increasing public health, increased revenue to city coffers, freeing up more police time to combat real crime, and lowering its profile to families.
It opened my eyes, very good.
This is an excellent website to get the word out on deciminalizing prostitution (something I heartily support). Sexual activities between consenting adults should be left between them and not subject to government scrutiny. I hope that this site and the Coalition to Deciminalize Prostitution are successful in getting laws that make prostitution illegal abolished.
I am a strong supporter for decriminalization of prostitution.
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