*Prositution goes back to the first women who saw she could make extra bucks from it, for reasons of poverty alleviation or wealth enhancement.*

Boazy, swapping sex for resources to feed the offspring, goes
way into the history of our ancestors themelves. If you do a bit
of primatology reading, you will find that both chimps and bonobos
swap sex for food.

Pairbonding itself, (which you call marriage), is quite common
in nature. Now I doubt that you have the ability to be totally
honest and straight forward here, but I bet that if your wife
cut off your sex life completely tomorrow, forever, you might
not be so keen to rush out to work and provide money for the
family to live on.

Foxy

I agree with all your points.

The granting of 457 visas may eliminate, the "sex slave" traffic that still occurs despite legalisation of prostitution. I don't know enough about how the visas work and whether this would prevent the practice of women having their passports taken from them when they arrive in Australia by the criminals who exploit these women.

Perhaps we need to go further in the legalisation of prostitution, from what I know and I may be wrong, it is still illegal for women to "work" from home or on the streets. I understand that part of the reason for 'street-work' is so that they can remain autonomous in the hours they work and the clients they select. It is only the larger brothels which are mostly owned by men that are legal. If there is one industry that should be dominated by women, surely it is the 'oldest profession'. Then there would be some kind of 'career path' for some of the women. It must have an earlier 'use-by-date' than any other profession I can think of.

Foxy, I share your concerns on the long-term psychological impact that servicing a variety of men would have on some people - no doubt there are those who could cope. It must take courage and a maturity of mind that very young women have yet to develop. However, it is these same young women who are most in demand. This is why I asked so frequently of the threads about porn, whether the men, who dismissed any criticism of the industry, would recommend their children into a profession that has a short career span and dangers of both STD's and abuse.

I guess, until we are far more accepting of our sexual natures and our children educated more comprehensively than at present, the sex industry will remain fraught with the potential for abuse and exploitation. Therefore, the granting of visas for foreign sex workers would be a positive start as they would be required to meet standards just like any other person entering Australia to work.

Dear Yabby.. so does killing off competitive males :)

MIUAUG

MIUAUG <<<< Mating call of the adult male Homo Boazoensis.

Should they be issued to foreign sex workers?

I would have rather thought that it would be discrimation not to let them in.
After all they only have to adopt the same policys as they have overseas workings coming in to work in Abattoirs.

The owners of the brothels should have to pay for all air faires and any children of the Er, skilled forgeign sex workers and their health insurance for the whole family.

Of course the health insurance would be a big one.

Other than that one might think that the Minister for Imagration and the Federal Government were putting Sex Workers before meat workers.

Would you have moral issues with that ?