Quote Originally Posted by Ozme52 View Post
I'd approve but you have to create a whole new set of circumstantial laws to fairly regulate it...

The following purportedly happened in Germany soon after they legalized prostitution. Apparently a brothel owner was perusing the local unemployment lists and saw a particularly good looking woman therein. He offered her a job which she turned down...

...causing her to immediately lose her unemployment benefits because she turned down a legal job.

Here's a link to a news article

(Now wouldn't that make for an interesting bdsm-story... a society where innocent young men and women can be "drafted" for service in legal sex dungeons, where they are at the mercy of well-heeled doms and dommes.)
That is a wrinkle I would never have considered. WOW

Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately if you happen to be a rich BDSM freak who is planning to open a brothel in Germany, it does not seem to be true. Here is what Snopes.com has to say about it:
http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/brothel.asp

Anyway, I would be oppsed to legalized prostitution on moral and religious grounds, but I do think that it might be feasable if we could find a government that would not take advantage of the workers in some way.

Anybody think that would happen in the real world?

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