I know prostitutes

[PDJane]

31. Truthfully, I know a few prostitutes, too.

Most of them are funny, most are under-educated, none of them hate sex, a lot of them both like and dislike men.....like in specific, dislike in general. I met a number of them through the legal profession, which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. For a while, I lived next door to a prostitute. The reasons that they are prostitutes are as numerous and varied as the people that do the job, and it is a job.

Do I think it should be legalized? Yes, actually, I do.

Legalization would ensure health checks and screenings, allow women to get out from under the thumb of pimps and users, and make the profession safer. It would also ensure that under-age children would have stronger protections, and ensure that the women themselves would help with enforcement. It would also make it harder for police to threaten the women with various repercussions, like removing their children or charging their husband or significant other with living off the avails of prostitution if they didn't comply with whatever the cop wanted at the moment.

It has nothing to do with rose-coloured glasses. Unlike the OP, I've seen the harder, grittier side of the profession, had women crying in my office over whatever shit was coming down the pike at the moment. I've talked to children forced to perform sex acts. I've talked to women with HIV/AIDS because of the profession.

There are ways to fix this, but it means leaving judgement at the door and looking for solutions, and as long as the "My religion says you can't do that" attitude is prevalent, it won't be fixed.