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California’s governor is prepared to decriminalize prostitution for clients and workers in the coming days. What are your thoughts on that?
California’s governor is prepared to decriminalize prostitution for clients and workers in the coming days. What are your thoughts on that?
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Good. It should be legalized and regulated just like drugs (which CA has failed to do for most drugs) as this is the only way to keep the industry safe and reduce abuses.
I think it’s creepy people care about the sex lives of strangers.
prostitution isn’t my thing but i don’t really care
It means that sex workers can take steps to ensure their safety by setting up their own workplaces and hiring staff and security, without hassle from law enforcement. It also creates a competitive environment on harm reduction – the independent or co-operative-based worker will draw clientele away from organized crime based in sex trafficking, while improving health standards.
Good, sex workers should be able to operate in safe environments.
Interesting. But it won’t protect sex workers. They need to be made legal employees.
Fine by me. No business of mine if you want to slob on the knob for a job.
That’s not true. He only decriminalized loitering for purposes of prostitution on the street.
All prostitution should be decriminalized anyway. It’s better for all involved including lowering trafficking.
More definitive regulation would be better, but it’s a step in the right direction. Just like with recreational drugs, simply saying “you don’t go to prison for this anymore” is a far cry from establishing safety protocols and practices that reduce harm.
Good. Consenting adults should be free to do as they will as long as no one is being harmed or taken advantage of. This also opens the door for regulations and worker protections for sex workers that are absent in a black market.
Not my thing, but that hardly stops it from happening. May as well make it safe for the people who want to do it.
It also means directly attacking the bottom line of sex traffickers, and that makes me smile.
I’m fine with it so long as they outlaw pimping.
Pimps are scum.
I think it will be the same level of disaster for civilization that legalizing marijuana and gay marriage have been.
LA is about to get a lot smellier.
talk about a budget surplus
Hopefully it leads to sex workers having protections.
i think people should be able to do what they want with their bodies, but human trafficking should be illegal. but thats not necessarily connected
Creating more jobs for the current homeless I guess, so … goodish I guess?
I think I’d like to schedule a vacation to Cali.
Sex is legal. Paying people for a service is legal. Paying someone for sex is legal so long as it’s in front of a camera. I don’t see why prostitution shouldn’t be legal too.
Does the governor have that power? Would think that would need a law. Probably just an order which will not get enforced and/or challenged in court? Don’t know, out of loop.
Legalize, regulate, de-stigmatize. This is a step in the right direction.
Well how about that something that’s been around since the dawn of time for us. You mean now I don’t have to take them to dinner and a show first or marry them and live with them for the next 30 or 40 years. Well I’m putting my fancy pants on and going out.
It’s legal where I live I believe it should be like this everywhere, as it will happen anyways, also why warehouse people, for something as minor as this under a legal system that is an abomination.
Secession looks better and better every day.