Hey Peter, no I don’t want clients or prostitutes in any trouble or taking up any court time for carrying out a usual transaction in that particular industry.

My personal feelings about the types of transactions taking place is I don’t really want prostitution to come up on careers day at school.

I’m glad that some women find it all tickityboo and enjoy their work and feel it has given them greater self esteem as well as a decent income. Also makes me all warm and fuzzy to find out men have few complaints to share about the service provided.

It’s an area where it is unfair legally to treat it differently from other businesses but in reality you’d be living in lala land to believe it’s like a church bake sale.

Accusing married women of being jealous is very strange, we already chose not to have those lives while any wife knows those women choose to provide only the sandwich and not the whole picnic.

"Hey Peter, no I don’t want clients or prostitutes in any trouble or taking up any court time for carrying out a usual transaction in that particular industry."

Then there is no issue between you and me; but between us and the author.

"My personal feelings about the types of transactions taking place is I don’t really want prostitution to come up on careers day at school."

Didn't want a stall next to the physiotherapists'? Probably no need to worry on that account. There have been times in history, for example in mediaeval Venice, when brothels were state-subsidised. We don't think anything's odd about football grounds, swimming pools, velodromes, or physiotherapists for that matter being state-subsidised or -provided. No doubt it's a matter of perspective. Not that I'm in favour of the state funding of prostitutes but I acknowledge that the only thing stopping it from happening, and from being viewed as legitimate, is the shifting vagaries of public opinion - the "rights-are-whatever-a-politically-significant-group-demands" belief of modern democracies. Homosexuality was a criminal offence as recently as the 1990s in some Australian states. As for prostitution, people can have what sexual relationships they want and it's none of my business. But it gets my goat when the pious and popeholimost want to start ordering people around and claim moral superiority!

"It’s an area where it is unfair legally to treat it differently from other businesses but in reality you’d be living in lala land to believe it’s like a church bake sale."

In their stresses, risks, unpleasantness, hardness, - the "disutility of labour" - most other occupations aren't much like a church bake sale either. I don't accept prostitution is a special case on that score - it's just sexual, that's all, and that's precisely what excites people's prejudice.

Accusing married women of being jealous is very strange..."

It's not so much jealousy; more of a spiteful prejudice which, if it's happening, is happening in a different part of the brain than their rational choices.

Peter:“It's not so much jealousy; more of a spiteful prejudice which, if it's happening, is happening in a different part of the brain than their rational choices.”

Where would the spiteful prejudice come from though, unless it was some chick that always wanted to be a prostitute but couldn’t for some reason.

I thought it was men that were angered at their partners actually having sex with another. While women are angered if they believed their partner has fallen in love with another. Yabby will know.

“Didn't want a stall next to the physiotherapists'?”

Nope. : )

“In their stresses, risks, unpleasantness, hardness, - the "disutility of labour" - most other occupations aren't much like a church bake sale either. I don't accept prostitution is a special case on that score - it's just sexual, that's all, and that's precisely what excites people's prejudice.”

Nah I reckon it’s because the industry does attract some real lowlifes, drugs, and endangers children plus adults at one end of the scale.

I think it is one of the special cases. I suppose I don’t believe it is an industry that polices or protects itself very well.

Wait, you honestly expect us to believe prostitution makes normal men into serial killers? And what is your evidence, a bunch of anecdotes from news stories?

If you knew anything at all about psychology, if you had any data to prove your point, if you even personally knew a prostitute (as I do), you might have something.

But you don't. You're just an outsider making arm-chair observations based on a few news stories.