Dutch launch sex workers' first union.

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Originally posted by dhamsaic
i've held this viewpoint for a few years. my friend andrea has given me the most opposition. "it's degrading"... uh. not really. as the original poster pointed out, it's just doing something that WE ALL LIKE TO DO.

Your friend Andrea still has views that threaten the basic structure of American democracy. Does it harm anyone else? No. Does it affect her? No. But instead, like religious right extremists, she would ban something because their acts violate her emotions?

In the Libertarian perspective, laws make things illegal when they harm others. Does prostitution harm others. No more than having your daughter sign up for the Army.

These are the prinicpals on which this country was founded. Puritans came to America to practice wife swapping. Oh-h-h, disgusting? Maybe to me. But then their wife swapping does not attack or threaten anyone else nor the integrity and fiber of American society. In fact, starting with typing for organ transplants, wife swapping is so common that 20% of all kids are not fathered by their father - today as it was back in the prudish 1950s.

What is scary to me is that Andrea does not understand how anti-American her viewpoint really is.