Wacky Wednesday--Prostitution Should Be Legal

Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.

~Jobs, jobs, jobs!

~Our goal should be that prostitution be safe, legal, and rare.

~We could protect the women involved from the usual dangers of crime, disease, and pimps.

~Only legal trades generate tax revenue.

~It’s a reality right now, so obviously efforts to make it illegal haven’t worked.

~How can the world’s oldest profession be illegal?

~What’s the difference between giving a girl jewelry to stay with you over time and giving her money to be with you once?

~Isn’t marriage itself even an economic proposition based on giving a woman money for her various services as she chooses not to work?

~Given the legality of contraception, adultery, and premarital sex, it’s hard to see how you can craft a philosophically coherent argument against legalizing prostitution.

~Doesn’t the principle of privacy established in Griswold v CT, Roe v Wade, and Lawrence v TX require this?

~How can you have legal pornography (including the making of it) and keep prostitution illegal?

~Would you rather have a lusty teenager go to a professional or date your daughter?

~Would you rather have a lusty man pay a prostitute or try to seduce your wife?

~When it’s illegal, you don’t know whether a guy avoids it for fear or character. If it were accepted, you’d learn for sure who the decent guys are.

~Should a man be banished to loneliness and frustration only because he can’t convince women to be with him free of charge?

~Look at how much simpler this would make the exotic dancer industry.

~Who is the victim in a consensual sex act?

~You can pay for a massage, a model, a conversationalist, and you can even indulge in the lewdest of acts on the phone for money. Why not this?

~How else do you get rid of organized crime but by taking away their industries?

Resources:
Harry Reid wants to outlaw prostitution (Las Vegas Sun)

So much for job creation, Reid to ban prostitution (ABC “News”)