http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/bad-arguments-for-criminializing-prostitution/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:11:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/bad-arguments-for-criminializing-prostitution/#comment-6558 Prostitution, victimization, and immorality « Upturned Earth Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:24:08 +0000 http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/?p=1105#comment-6558 [...] then responds: All true - but the obvious pro-legalization rejoinder is that being sexually abused as a child, or being born poor and black in inner-city Baltimore, [...] [...] then responds: All true – but the obvious pro-legalization rejoinder is that being sexually abused as a child, or being born poor and black in inner-city Baltimore, [...]

]]> http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/bad-arguments-for-criminializing-prostitution/#comment-6554 LT Nixon Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:51:15 +0000 http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/?p=1105#comment-6554 Much like laws where you can't buy booze on Sundays, prostitution is illegal for religious reasons. It's tough to reason your way out of a law, when no reason was used to put the law in place. Good post! Much like laws where you can’t buy booze on Sundays, prostitution is illegal for religious reasons. It’s tough to reason your way out of a law, when no reason was used to put the law in place. Good post!

]]> http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/bad-arguments-for-criminializing-prostitution/#comment-6553 Jamelle Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:50:40 +0000 http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/?p=1105#comment-6553 I agree with you Matt, but we should still keep in mind that even when legalized, prostitution has some seriously negative externalities (persistent violence against women, some degree of coercion, etc.). I agree with you Matt, but we should still keep in mind that even when legalized, prostitution has some seriously negative externalities (persistent violence against women, some degree of coercion, etc.).

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