//is it right to be able to buy a woman for a man's use?//

No. It is wrong to be able to buy and sell people which is why we abolished slavery a very long time ago.

You can buy a woman's time. If you only want them to clean your house or mind your children, it might not be too expensive. If you want them to have sex with you I'm told it can be very expensive. Which seems unfair on the poor: why should only wealthy people have the means to hire ladies of negotiable virtue when they already have it so good?

I think prostitutes should be made available at local libraries so that the less well off can enjoy their services as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp0dkvGKOPo

So sexist Hasbeen

Where does that us with male protistitue aspirations?
With the gifts to service ladies in our imaginations?

Fess up Hazza

Surely the question nowadays is not should prostitution be legal or illegal (those days seem to be well behind us now, for good or ill), but can we have prostitution without all the negatives that often follow it?
Can we have a system that is free of criminality, abuse, violence, drug abuse, exploitation etc?
Or are those things inextricably linked to the underlying service?
Can prostitution become just like most exchanges of services or is there something unique about it?
Can prostitutes peddle their services like plumbers, electricians, lawyers, or any other service provider?
I think we have a way to go before we get to that level - but I can definitely see it coming.

Yes cumming indeed John.

Re "Can prostitutes peddle their services like plumbers, electricians, lawyers, or any other service provider?"

On future Uber "Your Ride, On Demand" https://www.uber.com/ it may be as concievable as conception.

I'll supply the disclosure part up front. I've never used the services of a paid sex worker in any form and don't have first hand experience of the industry.

I do though hold some opinions about the approach advocated by Wendy Francis and others. Points have mostly already been made but across multiple points and sometimes repeating is valuable.

- it's not a purchase of a person, it's a fee for service for a restricted time. It's a service that crosses a lot of social mores for many but involving an activity that for many humans is one of the most pleasurable things they do in their lives. No doubt with some customers a very unpleasant task but a lot of people have very unpleasant/stomach churning tasks in their jobs.
- "by criminalising sex buyers" As someone pointed out in the drug trade we don't (officially) punish the addict and absolve the dealer. If society thinks it has a role to play in consensual arrangements between adults then by most standards its the one making the money from the transaction that should be the most accountable. Mostly I think it's not societies business and if we want to deal with the assumed damaged individuals involved I don't think there is a case to suggest that it's just the prostitutes who are damaged.

If anything I suspect that the type of dialogue about prostitution encouraged by Wendy and those with similar views is a contributing factor in the harm potentially facing prostitutes.

R0bert

I stopped halfway through reading this article, because I can't agree with the author.

Before I talk about prostitution I want to talk about abortion.

Some issues are complicated.
I cant support a ban on abortion, even though some part of me knows its morally right (stopping the killing of unborn innocent children... or fetus if it sounds less threatening), because I know that if its banned then women will go to the extremes of literally shoving a coathanger up there and dying on the table themselves.

I'm a realist.
I can't support abortion morally, (its not a contraceptive) but I know that banning it will push abortions underground and put women at risk themselves.

And so, I accept its legal, but in a social sense I frown upon it.
Why must we celebrate and embrace everything that's legal?

I support freedom and liberty for all.

I understand that some women feel that women should not be treated as sexual objects, but at the same time these women with their high and mighty ideals should not be able to dictate what other women who willingly choose to sell themselves for money can and can't do.

They have no right.

They do have the right to shut the hell up and mind their business, and they can exercise that right at any time.

I won't support any woman being forced into prostitution.
I would support that woman's freedom and liberty.

But freedom and liberty means she has the right to sell herself... if she wants to.
- And even if I don't like it.