Well, the other thing they do right is having comfy parlors where you can hang out and interact socially with the girls and other customers while making your choice. It's a lot of fun.

That said, it's not a very good system overal, for the reasons you mention.

After I saw a Cathouse episode I checked out that trailer
facility called Bunnyranch.I saw the fat bald pimp there
groping his hookers.The hookers were nasty looking with
all the same look,fake blonde and pimp branded tattoos.
Outlaw Nv brothels like in Canada and give girls work cards
that ensure std tests and then they pay taxes there.By the
way all Bunnyranch hookers wanted $1000 and up per hour.

I mean, with all of that taxation, regulation, and lawyering going on behind it.

Fujiwara tofu rocks!

In extenso you would have to be against the government dictating health care as well, right?

Supposedly the electorate, the body of people entitled to vote (us), are selecting and electing persons who they/we feel most closely mirror their/our ideas and values to represent them/us within various legislative bodies.

It's those characters we've elected and sent off to Sac and DC that have been, and will continue, to write the laws that LE is sworn to uphold.

What does that tell "us"?

I guess it means that either we suck at choosing our representatives, or that we advocates of decriminalized or legal prostitution are, at least in theory, out numbered.....For now.

Or is it neither of the two, and we are simply as a matter of course, always deceived by our candidates, and subsequently misrepresented?

Everything comes in cycles. Someday legalization and/or decriminalization of prostitution will be a reality in California.

For now, it is easiest to blame the whole mess on the Religious Right. I really don't think they mind anyway.

And they'll probably take most of the heat when the government finally does get it's finger in the pie, takes over the business and fucks it up too.
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EDIT: I liked this guy's comment down the page from the article.

"Is everyone on here retarded. Does anyone not see the biases inherent in an open poll that is not performed based on a statistical representation of the population. Although I agree with the majority of those who participated I can't stand bad science/statistics."

Posted on 08/09/2007 at 8:08:00 AM

From Wikipedia:

"In Argentina prostitution itself (exchanging sex for money) is legal, according to Article 19 of the Constitution: private actions that in no way offend order and public morals or do damage to a third party are reserved to be judged by God and fall outside the competence of judges"

I travel there fairly frequently. My ATF is there, and she is the sexiest woman I have even been with. All I have to do is email her ahead of time - we then spend the week having the time of our lives.

No LE, no moral judgements, no gov't taxes or regulation. And here is the best part - $120/hr for the best sex I have ever had.

This system puts our US moral majority culture to shame.

Q.E.D.

Ask Uncle Bob

Unfortunately, most Americans are too uptight and moralistic about sex. Prostitution will remain a taboo and outlawed profession for decades to come. Even if by some miracle it was legalized, I doubt it would be any good. Just look at how it is in Nevada.

- DSK
"O tempora, O mores!"

I'm in favor of it being legalized as well. It would make it safer for the ladies and everyone involved. But hopefully a system that's better than what they have in Nevada. As far as spending $500/hr+ to have sex with a grandma; I'll save that money for my next trip to Thailand - thank you. Hell, we have a better system than that here in the Bay Area where it is illegal. Something's wrong with that picture.

Doesn't really matter, because all the moralists & femi-" ". will never allow it to happen. Wasn't Prop K crushed in San Francisco just a few months ago? And that city is supposed to be a hot bed of progessive thinking. Give me a break.

- DSK
"O tempora, O mores!"

Some old timers told me up until the mid 80's,bbbj and
full service without a condom were legal in Nevada brothels.
They said Mustang had some hot hookers and most guys spent
under $100 per visit.I missed that era,today the brothels suck.

You and me, babe! You and me! It's not about getting off at all. Never has been. It's the thrill of the illicitness. The risk of getting beat up by Guido the killer pimp. I don't know why no one else here seems to recognize this...