What Consenting Adults Do In Private Is Their Own Business. Period.

[Hugabear]

97. Consent is consent

A person either can or cannot give consent.

We can argue about stats, childhood abuse, etc all day long - but in the end, we must decide if an adult can give consent or not regarding what they do with their own bodies.

I think most of us can agree that prostitution is repugnant, and that we should encourage women who feel the need to prostitute themselves to get help. But in the end, should the state be the one to tell that person what she can and cannot do in private?

For example, we would argue that a woman has the right to determine if she wants to carry a pregnancy to term, or to seek an abortion - it is her body, the state has no business interfering. We do not apply criteria to that decision to decide whether a woman is able to make that decision on her own.