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Originally Posted by rodimusprime
As for the people who call prostitution a "harmless" crime I don't see how you can view this documentary and still believe that. The truth of the matter is that the version of prostitution we are shown in movies and music is a sanitized version of the actual real deal.
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People call it a "victimless" crime, not harmless. The semantics do make a difference. The basic trade of sex for cash is victimless. But then when you start looking at who usually ends up in prostitution, it's clear that these are the victims of child abuse, drug addicts, etc. Chemda pointed out on a recent show that one of the issues closely tied to this is poverty, and she's exactly right. The way we police prostitution now does absolutely nothing to reduce the number of prostitutes out there, does absolutely nothing to make them safer, and does absolutely nothing to get them medical attention that they need, whether it be rehab or due to abuse. Something's gotta give.
I think there are valid arguments to be made that more women and children could be helped by decriminalization (which is NOT legalization, by the way. People confuse those terms all the time).