Grosso Wants to Legalize Prostitution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would be OK in decriminalizing it if we were a larger geographical zone. As it is, we are a tiny city and johns will be pouring in from MD , VA and further. Some of our stressed neighborhoods will face further nuisance. The council will also feel less obligation to be a business attractive city and get these women less soulless jobs, and continue their dumb pursuits like the outsized paid family leave (i'm for paid family leave/just not the insane way they've structured it) that again covers MD and VA and will drive business from our city. Grosso is such a millennial weirdo. Can we have some adults on the Council please?

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would be OK in decriminalizing it if we were a larger geographical zone. As it is, we are a tiny city and johns will be pouring in from MD , VA and further. Some of our stressed neighborhoods will face further nuisance. The council will also feel less obligation to be a business attractive city and get these women less soulless jobs, and continue their dumb pursuits like the outsized paid family leave (i'm for paid family leave/just not the insane way they've structured it) that again covers MD and VA and will drive business from our city. Grosso is such a millennial weirdo. Can we have some adults on the Council please?

If DC is taxing the transactions, then this would be a net positive for the city. I say, let the suburbanites pour in and spend money here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why should buyers be punished? WTF?

You're kidding...

No, I'm in fact NOT kidding.

1) neither party should be punished for a willing transaction between two adults.

2) without patrons, how are these women supposed to earn a living if they've chosen to be a sex worker?



There should be nothing shameful about sex work. Not to the workers, or to the patrons. That's the whole point here. Why is that so hard to grasp?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No please don't have Grosso focus on education. The school remodernization budget is about $900M over what was originally proposed. Just have him do nothing.

It would be much cheaper.

And the results likely better, too.

[Anonymous]

Look at the mess with the Paid Leave bill. No allocation for costs no allocation for infrastructure. What a complete goof.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most prostitutes are anything but willing. If they could do something else they could but we'll allow our society to use and abuse them. Heartbreaking.

How is that any different from someone with no education or training working a crappy job at McDonalds, or as a menial laborer? You think they wouldn't rather be doing something else if they could?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most prostitutes are anything but willing. If they could do something else they could but we'll allow our society to use and abuse them. Heartbreaking.

Let's assume this is true. Criminalizing prostitution doesn't help these women, at all. It makes them criminals. It makes them more vulnerable to abuse. I think we have to look at the experience of countries that have done some version of legalizing/decriminalizing it, to see what actually makes sex workers safer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most prostitutes are anything but willing. If they could do something else they could but we'll allow our society to use and abuse them. Heartbreaking.

Let's assume this is true. Criminalizing prostitution doesn't help these women, at all. It makes them criminals. It makes them more vulnerable to abuse. I think we have to look at the experience of countries that have done some version of legalizing/decriminalizing it, to see what actually makes sex workers safer.

Or Nevada.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most prostitutes are anything but willing. If they could do something else they could but we'll allow our society to use and abuse them. Heartbreaking.

This is just not true.

It IS true, but there are many prostitutes who tell themselves it's not and almost all the johns like to believe that its a choice for women. For a few very highly paid call girls, maybe. The average prostitute. Ugh!

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't recommend making it legal in just DC, but I agree that it should be legalized nationally.

Saying that you don't want it to be legalized because you think it will "hurt" women is disingenuous. Prostitution has been illegal basically forever, and still happens underground, where it is completely unregulated and conditions are far worse than they would be if it was legalized.

Make it legal, regulate it, require security, STD testing and screening of johns.

[Anonymous]

When it's legal nationally would be fine for DC. As is, just creating a bunch of nuisance and bother. God, I wish our CouncilMembers would focus on quality of life issues--parking, beautification, schools, health care, daycare, homelessness rather than these big 'sexy' national issues. No one outside DC cares!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most prostitutes are anything but willing. If they could do something else they could but we'll allow our society to use and abuse them. Heartbreaking.

Let's assume this is true. Criminalizing prostitution doesn't help these women, at all. It makes them criminals. It makes them more vulnerable to abuse. I think we have to look at the experience of countries that have done some version of legalizing/decriminalizing it, to see what actually makes sex workers safer.

This.

But old school feminists simply can't get past the fact that sex-positive empowerment has suppplanted their tired, frigid worldview. They still fundamentally view sex as something men "take" from women, cheapening and demeaning them in the exchange. This is how they see prostitution, and this is also exactly how they see marriage, coincidentally.

A sex-positive philosophy sees women sex workers as desirable service providers, like stilled tradespeople, who offer unique, in-demand services.

Are plumbers or electricians ashamed of what they do? No. sex workers shouldn't be either

[Anonymous]

I think you meant "Skilled trades people." I wonder if we'll be able to Yelp them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We would be much better off as a society by making a lot of this stuff: pot and prostitution, legal and tax it and regulate it.

^ I agree 100%!

[Anonymous]

They documentary that really changed my mind about it. I think it was call “Pretty woman”or something.