Onanists

[darmstadt]

W*nker

Tosser

[darmstadt]

Bordell

Idiots

Sensible

[xoggoth]

Men who choose to use prostitutes are indirectly supporting drug dealers and abusers

The drug abusers part is almost certainly true, it is the only way most otherwise talentless young woman can earn enough to feed a drug habit, however, much of the association with crime is only because prostitution is illegal and therefore will tend to be run by criminals.

Maybe a more sensible solution would be to legalise prostitution, subjecting it to the same rules as any other businesses to avoid nuisance (street traders can't set up on any street corner as they feel like it) and spend the money wasted on tackling it to pursuing the more serious crime of drug dealing.

PS Name and shame wouldn't work with us shameless dirty old men anyway

[OwlHoot]

Sensible

Prostitutes wanting to use the facility also have to pay £50 to "rent" a room there for three months. For that price they get free meals and access to the Artemis gym.

£50 for three months' rent, and free meals and a gym?! What's to stop anyone saying they're a prostitute and staying there for three months? Jeez, if I had a contract in the same town I'd be tempted to do the same!

[OwlHoot]

Maybe a more sensible solution would be to legalise prostitution, subjecting it to the same rules as any other businesses to avoid nuisance

The snag is, as we find so often with Labour, the more a government tries to manipulate and interfere in peoples' personal lives the more they have to. It's like pulling the wool out of a jumper.

If prostitution were legalized then, knowing how thick and incompetent NL are, and meddlesome, before long they'd somehow find themselves actively encouraging young people to do it.

[wendigo100]

If prostitution were legalized then, knowing how thick and incompetent NL are, and meddlesome, before long they'd somehow find themselves actively encouraging young people to do it.

And another dumbed-down GCSE to go alongside Media Studies, Social Studies and Flower Arranging.

[Dundeegeorge]

hmnnn

"The drug abusers part is almost certainly true, it is the only way most otherwise talentless young woman can earn enough to feed a drug habit,"

Yes, I suppose there can only be so many models.

[IR35 Avoider]

If prostitution were legalized then, knowing how thick and incompetent NL are, and meddlesome, before long they'd somehow find themselves actively encouraging young people to do it.

They wouldn't have to do anything - the mechanisms are already in place - remember what happened in Germany - I'm fairly sure someone posted a link to an article about it on this site. In Germany they decided to legalise prostitution, this meant brothel-owners could advertise at the job-centre equivalent, just like any other business, and a woman with no desire to work in the profession was sent for an inteview. If this happened in the UK then I think under current rules she could have her benefit stopped if she refused to many job offers.

In principal I'm in favour of legal prostitution, so the above presents a bit of a dilemma - not sure what I would want to do about it, if I were a politician. Probably abolishing benefits for unemployment altogether would be the answer. (Replace the income with the universal tax credit from my proposed tax system.)

[Lucifer Box]

Interesting argument on Hecklers this evening (Radio 4), proposing the idea that the introduction of the welfare state has been a huge mistake and that the country would be better off today if it had not been introduced.

Listen again here: Hecklers

[Dundeegeorge]

Interesting argument on Hecklers this evening (Radio 4), proposing the idea that the introduction of the welfare state has been a huge mistake and that the country would be better off today if it had not been introduced.

Listen again here: Hecklers

The country might well be better off indeed, although some (many?) individuals would not necessarily b e so. and since the country doesn't get a vote........