Is it OK to use a brothel do you think? Would it be OK for married people to use them without letting their partners know they are, and is that different from "playing away" Do you think that it would make any real difference making them legal. Would legalising them be condoning them and understanding that it could then become a legal career choice for some of our youngsters.
I think that there is a point to having legal brothels. The workers could be health checked regularly and work in a safer environment. There would be financial gain for the state in transparent taxation. I realise it wouldn't stop street and illegal flesh trading as that in itself holds an attraction and is why some indulge in using it. On balance though, i think its a yes, they should be available
yes but no time to give my reasons right now i may come back to this
It's a very old arguement this. Yes, I've always been in favour for the reasons Anais quoted.
Plim
again this debate seems to commence from the viewpoint that the sex workers are going to get regular checkups. but what about the customers? do they avoid the indignity and intrusion? or are they assumed to be free of disease?
also what are the implications, when the general population have sex? would they then be considered the unclean? would the state also need to intervene?
i think in one recent survey sex workers had the lowest rate of infections compared to the general population.
I think without doubt they should.
The girls who prostitute on the streets in many cases are desperate women, doing it to feed their drug habit.
It is fecking dangerous as well for them, and the residents in these areas must hate it.
IF it was a bit like Amsterdam where it was well controlled and monitored, maybe a lot of those girls would be able to get help for their habit, instead of having to get into a strangers car and drive somewhere remote.
But this Government and the next and the next, will not legalise it...my opinion.
In Amsterdam whilst the girls are checked and clean, it is true are the customers?
The girls are taught what to look for and believe me NOTHING is done without a condom, not even oral sex.
i get the feeling that when this debate comes round it is gets started with little or no thought, or at least no more than 'let's start that old chestnut again'.
i think it would take a long period of familiarisation with public brothels for it to become part of the landscape, and even then i think the brits would still find it uncomfortable. ie not in my back yard etc.
after all many sex workers operate on their own in a flat in residential areas. people eventually twig and its live and let live by and large. And that seems to be what people are happy with.
but i suppose lap dancing clubs are paving the way for the possibility of brothels. so its not impossible to imagine something similar. but it means a trek into town and extra cost.
And the likes of Raoul Moat leering at you, as you come and go through the doors.
No the run across the raod micro brothel has its advantages. a failing erection won't last long after a tube journey on a cold winter's night.
Take one look at amsterdam's system and run like hell!! Approx 80% of the working girls there are actually victims of human trafficking and are there against their will. The police force is corrupt and there is no-one to turn to. They are drugged, and left with no option but to work the windows for the vile pimps that use them..
Sorry... bit of a soap box rant, but it's something I feel very strongly about.
In an ideal world, legalised brothels would be well run, maintained and checked and provide a much safer environment for girls who choose to work them. If this could all be put into effect without a repeat of things that happen in the likes of amsterdam then I would be all for them.
Oldest profession in the world that will never be stopped. Its going to happen anyway so leagalise it tax it and stop wasting tax payers money and police time on trying to prevent what will never be stopped.
But how would they operate?
each sex worker would be employed and it would be on their tax returns, cv's etc.
what could the punters expect? a guaranteed result? refunds if not?
people tend to forget there is some sensitivity involved. will there be procedures to follow?
its pretty much about men arriving there when they are ready to shoot their load and workers being able to respond as best they can. it can be high turnover. would regulations hinder this?
like all public things they would differ from council to council.
but knowing there was a public brothel in an area near you, and the likelihood that someone in your family was a user. might just be upsetting for some people. supposedly it shouldn't be,but somehow i think it would a long time before they became something nobody bothered to discuss.
that would be main problem, establishing them as a common place thing.
you know 'righty ho dad, just popping out for a quick blowjob with Heather, then I'm off down the pub with the lads'.
'Mind how you go son'.
Some information on Amsterdam's workers and practices.
The thing is what is wrong with the part of sex work, which needs to be fixed?
human trafficking would continue whether the state brothels existed or not.
rehabilitating street crack grannies is all very well, but they would probably not be good for the business of a state brothel.
health checks are equally a great idea, but a decent sex worker already does this better than the average careless casual sex adventurer.
These seem to be the main points that are on discussion.
providing a place which operated in a different way to others just simply opens up another way of doing the same business. which would be just as transitory as all the other venues.
the only saleable factors could be cost and location. is it cheaper/more satisfying to get a state shag or go to the same old places?
which are at the heart of sex trading anyway. so i am not sure if there would be a noble endeavour or achievement. it woudln't really change the basic nature of sex working.
:? Nothing is straight forward in life...
