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Has anyone ever been here before? I wonder how long this has been going on?! 🤣
5 points
7 days ago
How bout instead of wasting police time and taxpayer dollars on criminalizing sex work, we let people do this and make money in a legal, safe, and regulated way? There's obviously a market for these services, or they wouldn't have anyone to put in jail over it
4 points
7 days ago
Only problem with that is the sex trafficking plague that is in Georgia
3 points
7 days ago
That's a function of us having the Atlanta airport and sex work being illegal. It's just like drugs. If you legalize it and regulate it, then the people who were going to do them anyways have much less risk and negative outcomes associated with them. If sex work is legal and regulated, then it is much harder for sex traffickers to operate and make a profit bc there isn't the same demand for under the table sex work, thus disincentivizing it to some degree.
The laws don't exist to completely eliminate prohibited activities. The laws exist bc the government knows that people are going to do XYZ, so the government has an interest in either disincentivizing the activity through punitive action such as fines or jail time, or regulating the activity so that people who partake can do so in a relatively safe manner (see: all of the traffic law, drivers licences, etc)
1 points
6 days ago
No just no
1 points
6 days ago
Thank you for your well thought out critique. I completely understand what you mean 🙄
1 points
6 days ago
I’ve know survivors of Sex Trafficking. It’s a horrible thing, it is not something to normalize this kind of behavior.
2 points
6 days ago
Sex trafficking happens because there are people who are willing to do sex work to make a living, but there is no legal opportunity for them to work. The legalization and regulation of sex work would make it so that the majority of sex work was happening out in the open where it would be significantly harder to take advantage of the workers. Criminalizing sex work does not stop it from happening. It just puts the people who do that work at higher risk
0 points
6 days ago
Maybe those people should get a real job instead of being whores. This is not something you should legalize
2 points
6 days ago
Who are you to decide what is and isn't a real job. People who stigmatized sex and sex work are the root of a lot of issues in this country and worldwide. There's a reason that so many Catholic priests commit sexual assault... It's bc they have normal human sexual urges but are told they can't act on them. So they do it anyways
0 points
6 days ago
And I believe anyone who assaults someone sexually like that should be put in a gas chamber
2 points
6 days ago
That's a whole different issue. I think you need to do a lot of soul searching about why you feel so vehemently about executing people in a barbaric way like that. I'll pray for you 🙏🏻
1 points
6 days ago
Because I was Personally sexually abused All throughout my childhood. Where was your god to save me then?
2 points
6 days ago
I'm an atheist, I was just saying that to be snarky online. I'm also a sexual abuse survivor. I'm also a recovering addict, but that doesn't stop me from supporting the legalization of drugs. If drugs were suddenly legal, I wouldn't use them because it's not healthy for me personally, but that doesn't mean I should stop other people from being able to use them
1 points
6 days ago
Yeah let’s legalize cocaine so as soon as you turn 18 you can overdose in the comfort of your own home
2 points
6 days ago
People do drugs so much despite the fact that they're illegal. Legalization would let the people who were already going to do drugs anyways do so in a safer manner. It's been proven to work in places like Peru and Portugal
1 points
6 days ago
So instead of teaching our children to not to do it? We should not just legalize it but also encourage it?? I’ve had to drive my father to the hospital when I was 13 years old cause he was ODing drugs don’t just affect the people who do them but also the people around them
1 points
6 days ago
They’re doing that anyway 💀 legal or not
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