Is the world going crazy or is it just me? Apparently, there are moves afoot to decriminalise prostitutes selling sex and instead make it illegal for 'customers' to buy it. That's just like decriminalising dealers selling drugs, but making it illegal for addicts to buy them. What's wrong with it being illegal to buy or sell sex and drugs and thereby have a two-pronged approach to wiping out both of these societal ills? After all, if it were illegal to buy sex (or drugs) what would be the point of it not being illegal to sell them? What am I missing here? This proposal just doesn't add up and, hard as it might be for you to believe, I'm a reasonably intelligent person.
And before anyone says drugs should be legal so the government can tax them and take them out of the hands of criminals, that's an example of woolly thinking. Making drugs legal and taxable would only give criminals a 'lawful' business by which to launder the proceeds from their other criminal activities. And as for taxing the proceeds of prostitution (if punters were still allowed to use the 'service' that is), do we really want our government (of whichever political party) to be little more than pimps? It wouldn't necessarily make it safer for prostitutes as has been claimed, as there are always those who would avoid paying tax by operating outside of the 'system'.
Like I said - just how could it be illegal to buy something that wasn't also illegal to sell? Any thoughts (intelligent ones), then feel free to comment.
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