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>>383420 > I would suggest specific laws be written to define situations like the former scenario. Ehhhhhhhh if that's what it takes to decriminalize prostitution, so be it. But I think that's going overboard.
Prostitutes, deliverymen/mailmen, and NFL players have one thing in common: They primarily use their body. NFL players use it to move a ball and/or smash into each other, mailmen use it to sort, parse, and carry mail, and prostitutes use it for sex. It's this last thing that seems to send everyone a-twitter (or to Twitter.) Especially when done in conjunction with a condom and/or birth control, this is just another physical act but the majority of (American) society treats it as some special act, evangelical or not, when the only big difference is the amount pleasure you get from it. (Yes, there's that whole baby thing involved, but that's only possible in the specific case of sperm in vagina; not all sex acts end with this, and with birth control the chance of babby drops dramatically, so I don't consider it part of the issue.) From an anthropological stand-point, this was probably done by early human societies as a way to stop over-population or, perhaps, health problems from women getting pregnant at older ages. With the birth control we have these days, this is moot.
At least in America, we already have laws to handle any situation. If the prostitute doesn't consent to the act, then it's rape. Otherwise, it falls under the same laws that apply to any other service person that goes unpaid, such as the gardener I mentioned earlier. Creating special, unnecessary laws regarding prostitution just makes things more complicated and would keep the whole industry under a darker cloud than it would already be.
Or, look at it from a different angle: If the gardener doesn't get paid, does the one who commissioned the work get charged with slavery? Either that person gets charged with slavery and the person who fails to pay a prostitute gets charged with rape (at least until they pay up, and then the charges magically vanish,) or neither gets charged with either.
In any case, the moral of the story is to get the payment up front.
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