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Originally Posted by Blitzgal
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).
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I feel you. It's just that people make the "victimless" claim in the abstract as if we can seperate the cause and effect of it all. It's crazy how the police attempt to tackle the problem by locking up pimps while slapping prostitutes and Johns on the wrist with fines and overnight jail sentences.
And in the documentary when they show you 12 and 13 year old kids being used on the street it just tears your heart. Especially since many of them have Stockholm syndrome and "love" their pimps. They end up going back to them very often. Sad.