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In reply to the discussion: What Consenting Adults Do In Private Is Their Own Business. Period. [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)If you can't prove the problem exists, why should we put people in jail to solve it?
"Your conflation of doctors with prostitutes is nonsensical."
The only basis for your proposal was your claim that many prostitutes are abused. I can find many women abused in many professions. In fact, my workplace requires I take sexual harassment training every year so that I don't abuse women. Yet you only want to make it illegal to pay a prostitute.
"the Swedish method criminalizes the buying of sex, not the selling of it."
There are (at least) two parties involved in prostitution. The fact that you give one of the parties a free pass does not make prostitution legal except in the most pedantic sense.
"The conflation of women who engage in relationships with sugar daddies with prostitutes is disingenuous. Prostitutes sleep with many different men"
They both sleep with men for money. And if she can't find a sugar daddy to pay her enough, you can be damn sure she'll be sleeping with multiple.
"This constant refusal to deal with the issue as a serious matter is offputting at best."
The fact that I don't agree with you does not mean I am not treating this seriously.