This morning's paper has an article calling for the legalisation of prostitution. "We will never eradicate prostitution," says the quote on the front page, "so let's make it legal."
According to this logic, I expect all crimes to be made legal - after all, we're not going to eradicate any of them, are we?
By the way, as far as I understand the laws in the UK do not criminalise prostitutes, they treat as a crime certain actions on the part of their clients (e.g. kerb crawling) and the people who live off their earnings. Which is as it should be - women who sell their bodies are harming no one but themselves, so I see no point in punishing them for it.
This article also seems to suggest that there's nothing wrong with paying for sex, that it doesn't do anybody any harm.
That would be true if we were animals, and sex for us was merely a physical act that has no emotional consequences.
According to this logic, I expect all crimes to be made legal - after all, we're not going to eradicate any of them, are we?
By the way, as far as I understand the laws in the UK do not criminalise prostitutes, they treat as a crime certain actions on the part of their clients (e.g. kerb crawling) and the people who live off their earnings. Which is as it should be - women who sell their bodies are harming no one but themselves, so I see no point in punishing them for it.
This article also seems to suggest that there's nothing wrong with paying for sex, that it doesn't do anybody any harm.
That would be true if we were animals, and sex for us was merely a physical act that has no emotional consequences.
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