Prostitution may be decriminalized in San Francisco.

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StrangerInAStrangeLand

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A measure that would make it more difficult to investigate and punish prostitution crimes in San Francisco qualified for the November ballot on Friday, opening another passage in the city's long fight over decriminalizing the sex-trade industry.

Proponents of the measure were able to collect more than 12,000 signatures, including those from three members of the Board of Supervisors, to put it on the ballot, according to the Erotic Service Providers Union, the labor group backing the measure. The same group was unsuccessful in putting a similar measure on the ballot in 2006.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/18/BA6011RI18.DTL&tsp=1
 
StrangerInAStrangeLa said:
A measure that would make it more difficult to investigate and punish prostitution crimes in San Francisco qualified for the November ballot on Friday, opening another passage in the city's long fight over decriminalizing the sex-trade industry.

Proponents of the measure were able to collect more than 12,000 signatures, including those from three members of the Board of Supervisors, to put it on the ballot, according to the Erotic Service Providers Union, the labor group backing the measure. The same group was unsuccessful in putting a similar measure on the ballot in 2006.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/18/BA6011RI18.DTL&tsp=1
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Hopefully it'll win.
 
scott3x said:
Hopefully it'll win.
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Well, if it does win, then is the next step to legalize pimping? If we think for one moment that women are going to be safe without the protection of a pimp, then y'all got another think coming!

Baron Max
 
Meanwhile, prostitution has already been decriminalized in pretty much the entire United States, without anyone noticing. As long as you aren't on the street, the cops don't investigate. You can even advertize, as anyone who has ever leafed though a free weekly paper in any major city can attest.

It's funny how the authors of this article single out SF, in what is obviously a culture-war tactic. SF is perhaps a bit more open and formal about what's going on, but there is no substantial difference between there and any other American city. Well, except for the ones in Nevada, where prostitution is explicitly legal...

And the recent national changes in prostitution enforcement (which is to say targetting only street prostitution) has had the effect of making prostitutes safer and decreasing their reliance on pimps (since they now pre-screen customers over the phone, and also control the setting where they meet). It has been correlated with a marked rise in the esteem that sex workers hold their profession in, which has in turn made it more likely for prostitutes to remain in the sex business.
 
S.A.M. said:
Well this will help a lot of students to pay their bills.
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Women students in India might resort to that, SAM, but I doubt very much if many American women do it.

Not that I'm against it, it's just not something that most women would do unless forced by some circumstances. And please note that I said "most women", okay?

Baron Max
 
Baron Max said:
Women students in India might resort to that, SAM, but I doubt very much if many American women do it.
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A cursory examination of the personals ads in any medium-size-or-larger American city should put that doubt to rest, given the proliferation of young women seeking "wealthy older benefactor to help with school bills."

And I personally know a few women that stripped their ways through college.
 
quadraphonics said:
A cursory examination of the personals ads in any medium-size-or-larger American city should put that doubt to rest, given the proliferation of young women seeking "wealthy older benefactor to help with school bills."
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What's the percentages of those women to all the others?

quadraphonics said:
And I personally know a few women that stripped their ways through college.
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Stripping is NOT prostitution.

Baron Max
 
Baron Max said:
Women students in India might resort to that, SAM, but I doubt very much if many American women do it.

Not that I'm against it, it's just not something that most women would do unless forced by some circumstances. And please note that I said "most women", okay?

Baron Max
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You obviously are out of touch with "Current Trends in Prostitution" in places where its legalised

UK:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/news/article665019.ece

France:
http://chronicle.com/news/article/3...me-prostitutes-to-pay-tuition-2-books-suggest

And the US already has craigslist
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Sheriff+Craigslist+largest+source+prostitution/1362503/story.html
 
Baron Max said:
Well, if it does win, then is the next step to legalize pimping? If we think for one moment that women are going to be safe without the protection of a pimp, then y'all got another think coming!

Baron Max
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The whole reason for a pimp is to buy off cops and provide protection from other rackets. With prostitution decriminalized the working giorls can rely on police protection. DUH.
 
Female college students have always used prostitution to help pay their way through school its just that they work on the inside as 'escorts' and are not out on the streets which is why Baron didn't notice them.
 
Baron Max said:
Women students in India might resort to that, SAM, but I doubt very much if many American women do it.

Not that I'm against it, it's just not something that most women would do unless forced by some circumstances. And please note that I said "most women", okay?

Baron Max
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I don't know about that. Young drunk college students will do just about anything. they'll let old creeps "feel them up" or they'll give blow jobs for $40, just to pay for a taxi ride home. (Like some porn film). I believe the women you're thinking of are the ones who have lived past their college years and are much more mature and less naive. I think those women are less likely to resort to prostitution. College girls can't wait for someone to give them a reason to take their panties off. Then they'll realize how stupid that choice was in the morning.
 
so no different from college boys then cutsie?

its nice to see that sexual liberation is gender equal:)
people get WAY to hung up over sex, the irony is that the ones with the hang ups tend to be the ones who arnt getting any *cough cough* catholic priests *cough*
 
CutsieMarie89 said:
... College girls can't wait for someone to give them a reason to take their panties off. Then they'll realize how stupid that choice was in the morning.
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Is that all college girls? ...half? ...a small percentage?

And I'm more than a little curious about your last sentence; Why was it such a stupid idea? Isn't it just sex, no big deal? Why was it stupid?

Baron Max
 
Baron Max said:
Is that all college girls? ...half? ...a small percentage?

And I'm more than a little curious about your last sentence; Why was it such a stupid idea? Isn't it just sex, no big deal? Why was it stupid?

Baron Max
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I can only say for the girls at my university and the surrounding colleges and universities here, but actually I do think if not half somewhere near it. If you regret doing something later, it's probably because it was a bad idea. Like being drunk and letting someone film you having sex at some crazy party, that can come back and bite you if you want to run for political office or something someday. Of course I think being drunk is always a bad idea. Or for instance if you eat a whole giant bucket of popcorn with extra butter and then you realize that was a bad idea later because you get sick from it. There's things I've done and then the next day wish I had reconsidered.
 
PieAreSquared said:
I need to move close to you
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Naw, I'll bet she only knows a few women/girls at the university where she attends. And to say that half of the women/girls at that univ are whores is a little bit of stretch of the imagination, don't you think?

Baron Max
 
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