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Bill: Prostitution Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Radical Liberal Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2091
Description[?]:
| Prostitution is a legitimate business that should be recognized by the government |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: Prostitution is illegal.
Current: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Proposed: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:22:07, August 04, 2005 CET | From |  Market Socialist Party | To | Debating the Prostitution Bill |
| Message | The Market Socialist Party agrees and will give their support. |
| Date | 17:20:06, August 04, 2005 CET | From | Party of the Republic | To | Debating the Prostitution Bill |
| Message | The Party of the Republic disagrees once again. The Whig party is seriously out of its minds. |
| Date | 18:08:27, August 04, 2005 CET | From | Market Socialist Party | To | Debating the Prostitution Bill |
| Message | If you think about it, they are totally sane. When one makes prostitution illegal, it cause a whole slue of organized crime. You get pimps who abuse prostitutes and force them into drug addictions. Plus, prostitution isn't always the choice of the individual as many people think. Some times children have really poor (for lack of better words) parents that either force them into prostitution or are abusive to their children so that they have no self confidence so they do not finish their education and they have no where to turn but to prostitution. If prostitution was made legal, then they would be protected like normal workers. |
| Date | 20:29:18, August 04, 2005 CET | From | Party of the Republic | To | Debating the Prostitution Bill |
| Message | And if people farted popperi the world would smell better. But they dont, and this wont reduce crime. It will only change the nature of crime. Prostitution is illegal now, if its made legal then you make us the target for the sex slave industry. You know the kind of industry where foreign girls would be brought into the nation, their passports taken by members of organized crime and forced to prostitute themselves with little recourse since they do not know the language? Think about that. You might want prostitution legal so your trysts with the corner whore wont be picked up by the police department but that doesnt mean the entire country should be forced into the position. |
| Date | 21:41:10, August 04, 2005 CET | From | Market Socialist Party | To | Debating the Prostitution Bill |
| Message | If people were traficking prostitutes it would be no different as when people traffick illegal sweatshop workers. And prostitutes, if considered a legitimate occupation, would have the same protections as other workers. |
| Date | 21:50:41, August 04, 2005 CET | From | Party of the Republic | To | Debating the Prostitution Bill |
| Message | You fail to realize though that not speaking the language and INTIMIDATION would keep them scared from discussing the matter opennly. As it stands if this bill comes to the floor its going to fall dead on its face. |
| Date | 01:48:09, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Market Socialist Party | To | Debating the Prostitution Bill |
| Message | You are also assuming on the basis that this will be the actual effect for the legalization of prostitution. These effects are absent in societies that legalize prostitution (OOC: The Netherlands) And even if this does happen, prostitutes will be much better off with legitimacy rather than with illigitimacy and perhaps they could even form unions to stop these things from happening. |
| Date | 03:37:02, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Party of the Republic | To | Debating the Prostitution Bill |
| Message | (However in a nation of similar size to the Andurian Republic ie Germany where prostitution is legal, and even unionized there is a massive market of girls coming from Eastern Europe funnel through by the Russian mafia and other various mafias. http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/trafficking_human_beings.html) Oh right the unionization of hookers is going to protect illegal immigrants smuggled into the nation for the perverse pleasures of some people in this nation. It wont help them to legalize it, it will only shift the focus away from it and give it a silent look away. Much like how you're doing right now. |
| Date | 06:11:42, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Aldurian Communist Party | To | Debating the Prostitution Bill |
| Message | We of the Communist Party would support this bill. If prostitution were made legal, then it could be regulated this would ensure that the government could prevent the sort of abuses of which the PotR are speaking. As it is, prostitution is a crime, which means that it is engaged in by criminals, and involved with other crimes, and completely beyond government control. If prostitution were legal, then it would not be engaged in by criminals, but by professionals, and it could regulated by the government. |
| Date | 19:02:15, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Party of the Republic | To | Debating the Prostitution Bill |
| Message | Again the legalization of prostitution would not end crime, it would change the nature of crime, and drive the subversive elements down under a blanket of immunity. Do you really think these girls are going to come forward more if this were legal? At least if they're arrested for prostitution and found they cant speak the language the police can make strides against the suspects. If we leave it the way it is even under regulation then you would have an element of it. What? Will we increase the size of the government and have an agency to police the hookers? |
| Date | 20:25:56, August 05, 2005 CET | From | Voice of the People | To | Debating the Prostitution Bill |
| Message | Prostitution should not be made legal. Sex should not be about business. Legalising prostitution to lower crime seems about as sensible as legalising assault or GBH to lower crime. I ask the parties to think carefully about this bill. Legalising prostitution may clean up the prostitution image a little, but I don't think that is worth the risk of opening the doors to a slave trade, a new wave of illegal immigrants, and an even more present government. Is that what we want? Prostitution will always be a dark and seedy 'profession' whether it is recognised by the government or not. Legalising it is just not worth the trouble for us, or the people of the Aldurian Republic. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 45 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 37 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 18 |
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