legalized and regulated prostitution?

[FascistLibertarian]

Hey

How do you guys feel. I think it would be a good idea. Prostitution has negatives to be sure. But you cant win this part of the war on vice. Canada should do it!

[Mad_Michael]

Hey

How do you guys feel. I think it would be a good idea. Prostitution has negatives to be sure. But you cant win this part of the war on vice. Canada should do it!

No.

Despite all the hundreds of good reasons to legalise pot and/or prostitution, there is one huge issue that is often overlooked.

Tens of thousands of American college students coming over the border every Friday night in charter buses looking for pot and prostitute, a few beers perhaps, piss on the sidewalk, puke in an alleyway, maybe a drunken fight or two and then back on the bus to go home.

Just ask the Dutch what they think of their wonderful system. There is a reason that Amsterdam's property values are comparatively the lowest in the Netherlands and decent Dutch people steer wide clear of that cesspool. Vice tourists are the absolute worst and bring nothing much of value to the economy.

[M.Dancer]

The main reason I have never charged for sex is that I didn't want to lose my amatuer status in case it ever became an Olympic event.

[Who's Doing What?]

The main reason I have never charged for sex is that I didn't want to lose my amatuer status in case it ever became an Olympic event.

Personally I want an endorsement deal.

[FascistLibertarian]

No.

Despite all the hundreds of good reasons to legalise pot and/or prostitution, there is one huge issue that is often overlooked.

Tens of thousands of American college students coming over the border every Friday night in charter buses looking for pot and prostitute, a few beers perhaps, piss on the sidewalk, puke in an alleyway, maybe a drunken fight or two and then back on the bus to go home.

Just ask the Dutch what they think of their wonderful system. There is a reason that Amsterdam's property values are comparatively the lowest in the Netherlands and decent Dutch people steer wide clear of that cesspool. Vice tourists are the absolute worst and bring nothing much of value to the economy.

Not if we heavily taxed non-Canadians who did this and imposed very harsh penalties against those foreigners who go outside the system.

[runningdog]

The main reason I have never charged for sex is that I didn't want to lose my amatuer status in case it ever became an Olympic event.

LOL!

[noahbody]

The main reason I have never charged for sex is that I didn't want to lose my amatuer status in case it ever became an Olympic event.

I hope it's a sprint.

[M.Dancer]

The main reason I have never charged for sex is that I didn't want to lose my amatuer status in case it ever became an Olympic event.

I hope it's a sprint.

Being part of the Dancer line, it would have to be Dressage.....

but I knew a gal who was started training for the relay but switched teams and ended up with the broad jump

[geoffrey]

The main reason I have never charged for sex is that I didn't want to lose my amatuer status in case it ever became an Olympic event.

[jbg]

Hey

How do you guys feel. I think it would be a good idea. Prostitution has negatives to be sure. But you cant win this part of the war on vice. Canada should do it!

Sex tourism is not a good thing to encourage. With your 14 (or is it 16) year old age of consent, you're well on way to becoming sex tourism destination, much the way that Montana attracted "speed tourists", i.e. people who liked thrill of fast driving, between 1995 and 1999, when state had no posted speed limit.

[gc1765]

With your 14 (or is it 16) year old age of consent, you're well on way to becoming sex tourism destination...

As long as they obey the law, I don't care. Heck, we could use all that extra revenue to police the area, with stiff penalties, like locking anyone who breaks the law in the same cell.

Or, you guys in the U.S. could vote to legalize as well, since that will likely be where the tourists are coming from.

[jbg]

Or, you guys in the U.S. could vote to legalize as well, since that will likely be where the tourists are coming from.

In the US, unlike Canada, criminal laws are state by state. Nevada has legalized it, and is paying a price in sleaze and organized crime.

[gc1765]

In the US, unlike Canada, criminal laws are state by state. Nevada has legalized it, and is paying a price in sleaze and organized crime.

I see, good point. In that case, you should try to get more states on board...including New York

[Guest coot]

Or, you guys in the U.S. could vote to legalize as well, since that will likely be where the tourists are coming from.

In the US, unlike Canada, criminal laws are state by state. Nevada has legalized it, and is paying a price in sleaze and organized crime.

Sleaze is relative to individual sensibilities, and organized crime flourishes off of black markets, not regulated ones. There would be more organized crime in Nevada if it weren't legalized. In fact, if memory serves me correctly, it was legalized there to lessen the gangsters' grip on the trade.

Socialists who can't stand the idea of the government not being involved in every element of peoples' lives are always happy to criminalize anything they can. Sometimes they pretend they're conservative, but they're really big government proponents in disguise.

[BC_chick]

Just ask the Dutch what they think of their wonderful system. There is a reason that Amsterdam's property values are comparatively the lowest in the Netherlands and decent Dutch people steer wide clear of that cesspool. Vice tourists are the absolute worst and bring nothing much of value to the economy.

Never heard this end of the argument, and it's something to think about.

But I still think that providing a safe environment for the women (and men really) who choose to partake in the industry is worth the drunken tourists. This isn't Europe where people from all over the place will be coming, we're quite isolated so it's not a fair comparison to Amsterdam. Border-town Americans and the odd Mid-westerner who chooses Canadian girls to Mexican ones is going to be about it.

[geoffrey]

The only safe environment for these women is out of the prostitution industry. It's an illusion to think that because the government taxes their incomes that they are safer. It's silly.

[BC_chick]

The only safe environment for these women is out of the prostitution industry.

Agreed, for sure. But we've been trying that for a few thousand years and it's not working. We need a plan B.

It's an illusion to think that because the government taxes their incomes that they are safer. It's silly.

Look at any country with allocated red-light district.... would Pickton have stood a chance of killing 50 women in that environment?

[geoffrey]

Look at any country with allocated red-light district.... would Pickton have stood a chance?

Sure (assuming he's guilty). There would still be a blackmarket for it. Always is. People don't want to pay the taxes either. These things do happen in Vegas, and elsewhere.

I don't think it's the magic solution that some seem to think it is.

[BC_chick]

Sure (assuming he's guilty). There would still be a blackmarket for it. Always is. People don't want to pay the taxes either. These things do happen in Vegas, and elsewhere.

I don't think it's the magic solution that some seem to think it is.

Like I said, we've been trying Plan A and it's not working. Maybe those who don't like Plan B should start offering a Plan C.

[geoffrey]

Like I said, we've been trying Plan A and it's not working. Maybe those who don't like Plan B should start offering a Plan C.

Sure. Paying the hookers not to solicit. Having real penalties for those that purchase 'services.' It could even be mostly self funded. A few thousand dollar fines per use, and have that go to pay hookers not to be on the street.

[BC_chick]

Paying the hookers not to solicit.

Now there's a swell social-program... I think it'll fly. Then 1/2 the people on this forum can start bitching about the lazy bums who just don't wanna work.

Having real penalties for those that purchase 'services.' It could even be mostly self funded. A few thousand dollar fines per use, and have that go to pay hookers not to be on the street.

Sounds good. Let's do it.

Maybe an ultimatum is what's going to be what gets Parliament thinking on this....

"Uh, guys, listen up, we the people have been thinking here, and we've decided that you have two choices - either legalise prostitution or start slapping huge fines on the men who use the services."

Having heard stories the kind of stories about politicians that I have, I'm sure prostitution will be legalised within the first reading of the Bill.

[jdobbin]

Sex tourism is not a good thing to encourage. With your 14 (or is it 16) year old age of consent, you're well on way to becoming sex tourism destination, much the way that Montana attracted "speed tourists", i.e. people who liked thrill of fast driving, between 1995 and 1999, when state had no posted speed limit.

Sex tourist destination? Citation for that?

[geoffrey]

Having heard stories the kind of stories about politicians that I have, I'm sure prostitution will be legalised within the first reading of the Bill.

Unfortunately I think your right.

[Remiel]

That guy who was caught for soliciting was from my riding, hehehe... He even ran in the last election as an independant. I think he got between 800-1100 votes.