[regarding increase in Netherlands child prostitution] So what? This only has meaning if you compare it to other places where prostitution was not legalized, and find that there was less child prostitution there. This study does NOT do that. (posted to The World's Oldest Business )
we have no way of knowing how these women got PTSD. It is possible that they were suffering BEFORE they entered prostitution Farley’s study tested male and female prostitutes and both genders had high levels of PTSD. However, it is (posted to The World's Oldest Business )
I think we need to differentiate between the ARTICLE by Janice Raymond and the STUDIES she cites within that article. Yes, Raymond does claim that legalizing prostitution increases child prostitution. She cites several studies that she feels support this thesis. (posted to The World's Oldest Business )
if illegality made it easier for law enforcement to function, why were these crimes not eradicated decades ago? Obviously leaving prostitution illegal is not working. Laws against pimping and buying sex make it easier to prosecute pimps and johns, but (posted to The World's Oldest Business )
Nancy Kallitechnis: the average female prostitute begins being prostituted at age 12-14 and males at the age of 11-13. analog: Again, you need to carefully read the ORIGINAL source of the data you cite. This study interviewed children living on (posted to The World's Oldest Business )
That is a direct contradiction of what the Raymond article said . . . Nowhere in the article does it say that the Netherlands child prostitution study did not try to show that legalizing prostitution increased child prostitution. Your statement (posted to The World's Oldest Business )
the average female prostitute begins being prostituted at age 12-14 and males at the age of 11-13. Again, you need to carefully read the ORIGINAL source of the data you cite. This study interviewed children living on the street in (posted to The World's Oldest Business )
Are you saying that you found a copy of the ...studies and that Raymond’s statistics are not in the studies? No, I am saying that I do not agree that these stats mean what Raymond says they do, i.e. that (posted to The World's Oldest Business )
Before reading the comments on this post I thought that prostitution should be legal. I believed like you said. "No matter the arguments against it, I cannot get behind anything that restricts sexual freedom that does not directly affect anyone (posted to The World's Oldest Business )
I can understand what you are trying to convey. How in the world could the gender angle be overlooked or ignored by the police. A boy killing 11 girls means there is something more than just plain depression and below (posted to Gender "disappeared" in Albertville school shooting)
