Absolutely should be legal and taxed, with rules and regulations in place to protect clients and workers.

I pretty much do have moral objections to it, its fundamentally gross to me, but its not going to stop and id rather these prostitutes work in a safe place and pay their taxes like the rest of us than get their passports taken by a guy named The Scorpion with a spider Web tattooed on his neck.

Its an acutely exploitative labor relation that should be heavily regulated within a capitalist system in order to reduce the amount of abuse the people engaging in it experience. Ideally I want a system where no one feels a need to sell their body for a living. No one should be coerced into sexual relations.

Kind of conflicted?

I’m fine with the idea of exchange of money for sexual services. I don’t have any moral qualms with that practice.

My concern is that, even in some legal structures, it tends to encourage the preditation of some sex workers for the benefits of others exploiting people’s sexual labor.

If the individual selling their services is doing so freely and isn’t being exploited in any sort of way then I don’t have a problem with it.

I am for the civilized approach of the Nordic Model.

What is the Nordic Model?

The Nordic Model (sometimes known as the Sex Buyer Law, and the Swedish, Abolitionist, Survivor or Equality Model) is an approach to prostitution that has been adopted in Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Canada, France, Ireland and Israel. It has several elements:

1. Decriminalisation of selling sex acts

Prostitution is inherently violent. Women should not be criminalised for the exploitation and abuse they endure.

2. Buying sex acts becomes a criminal offence

Buying human beings for sex is harmful, exploitative and can never be safe. We need to reduce the demand that drives sex trafficking.

3. Support and exit services

High quality, non-judgemental services to support those in prostitution and help them build a new life outside it, including: access to safe affordable housing; training and further education; child care; legal, debt and benefit advice; emotional and psychological support.

A holistic approach

A public information campaign; training for police and CPS; tackling the inequality and poverty that drive people into prostitution; effective laws against pimping and sex trafficking, with penalties that reflect the enormous damage they cause. Read more >>

I’m fine with either, i understand why some countries ban it and why some don’t. However if legalised, it absolutely has to be regulated very seriously. People working on that field need to be protected against abusive workplace conditions that can occur. If the govt cannot provide that protection, it’s better to outright ban it.

I think its quite necessary profession and also extremely compassionate one. Those doing it should be protected and appreciated better.

I don’t have a problem with prostitution, I have a problem when socioeconomic conditions lead people to feeling like they have to sell their bodies to survive. If prostitution is completely voluntary, then it’s fine.

Your body, your choice

Ngl, there three or four of you on here I’d happily pay to have sex with.

It should be legal, safe, and taxed

Sex work is just work, as long as it is all between consenting adults.

Looking at the pros and the cons, it must be the opposite of CONstitution.

…I’ll see myself out.

So long as everyone is able to legally and safely consent I don’t see an issue.

think it should be legal, properly regulated, taxed and viewed as a profession.

A hesitant yes to this. I have two main concerns (I’m in the US). First is that protection for the workers should be paramount, and I’m not sure how that gets enforced with all the corporate fuckery that goes on. I’d give it perhaps three seconds before someone Ubers the idea, making everyone on their list an “independent contractor” and enshittifying the entire thing.

My second concern is that “game of telephone” story several years ago. Someone pointed out that in Germany, job agencies could technically require women on unemployment to apply for jobs in brothels. Again, with the current state of things, with red-pilled incels on the rise and fringe elements suggesting the government should assign them a girlfriend, I’m not sure this is something I would feel safe implementing at this time.