I have visited prostitutes, and I don't apologize for it. It was 1971, in a place called Vung Tau.

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85. We can go in circles all day long :)

Yet even if we legalized prostitution the problems associated with it doesn't go away and I'm of the mind that you shouldn't ignore the issues associated with it. Your argument that prostitution doesn't hurt anyone else is simply false. Prostitution is not a victimless crime as many like to claim. I don't know that any street-level prostitute really wants to be a prostitute; she does because she has to survive but that doesn't mean that she isn't a victim. It doesn't mean that a man who hires a street-level prostitute because he wants to go bareback and then goes home to his wife and gives her an STD means it's victimless. As I've stated in several posts now, the majority of prostitutes on the streets have already been victimized with sexual abuse. That in no way says that I think you agree that children be abused, it means I think you don't want to think about the abuse that continues into prostitution.