Food for thought

6 comments

• rockstar666

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  8 years ago

  When it comes to individual rights, I'm a far right conservative. I do not want the government telling me I can't take drugs, sell my body for sex, or be a pornographer. We already have laws protecting the public from impaired driving, statutory rape and copyright protections.
  
  Releasing people for non-violent drug crimes makes sense and I'm glad Obama did what he could. We'll see if Sessions rounds them all up again.
• poledancer83

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  8 years ago

  That's my point its my body so why should the government even have a say in it
• Dominic77

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  8 years ago

  For me, control over one's body fits under the whole "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" rights we are guaranteed by the creator, assuming no harm to other citizens in the process.
• impala

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  8 years ago

  Good to see you back darlin, email me later when you get a chance so we can catch up.
  
  Now, on to your comments, I whole heartedly agree that I want the government out of my life as much as possible. What happens between two consenting adults is know one business but there own. I read somewhere that in most places where prostitution is illegal (at least initially) it's was not due to moral, safety, or religious concerns, but due to the fact that it is very hard to collect taxes on it. Governments love taxes, and if they can't make money on something they make it harder for anyone to.
• gawker

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  8 years ago

  I live in liberal Massachusetts and the prime motivation in prostitution is to prevent trafficking. In many communities the police are stating up front that they aren't interested in prosecuting women, but will prosecute and publicize Johns while getting women assistance. Right now the law has no way to distinguish between the woman who chooses to have sex for money and the woman who chooses to leave an intolerable situation (oppression? Abuse?) and have sex for money to survive.
  I've struggled with the issue since I developed feelings for my ATF and know she's prostituting herself with me and others to pay for her drugs. She says that she's learned to put her "mind in a different place" when she's with a less than desirable guy. She tolerates it.
  This becomes a very complex issue when you begin to look at it from all party's perspectives.
• Dominic77

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  8 years ago

  I was hoping someone might mention the opioid problem in this country. I have a cousin who's on that stuff and it seems to subtract a not trivial amount of attention, money, and security away from his daughter. My MIL is enabling him and does realize that giving him money, paying rent, or buying food for his daughter is enabling his addiction -- she means well. He's not quite 30.