Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Proposal for Prostitution?
In this town where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and gay marriages are as common as hetero marriages, prostitutes could soon walk the streets without fear of arrest. San Francisco would become the first major U.S. city to decriminalize prostitution if voters next month approve Proposition K — a measure that forbids local authorities from investigating, arresting or prosecuting anyone for selling sex. The ballot question technically would not legalize prostitution since state law still prohibits it, but the measure would eliminate the power of local law enforcement officials to go after prostitutes. The arguments sway both ways as the positives and negatives battle eachother back and forth. This would free up $11 million in funds that are used to investigate prostitution, but now the police force will not be funded for other such investigations. This proposal could make the city and magnet for prostitution and quickly turn beautiful San Francisco into a sex driven city.
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Prostitution is absolutely disgusting anyhow, but i dont agree with government telling people they cant sell themselves for sex. they have the right to live there lives as they chose. my only objection to this would be to not launder on the streets and where skimpy clothes. i would rather not see it, and more so not have young children see it.
As much as I hate to say it, I live near an area where prostitutes frequent. It may not be the issue of the skimpy clothes like you see on television. Here, they walk around just like anyone else and unless you know their "mission" you think they are just walking down the street. I dont see here where they are prosecuted to the fullest extent and after doing some research (yes, I did a research project where I interviewed "street walkers" in Horry County) I found that quite a few of them are in the position they are in due to criminal backgrounds unrelated to prostitution, lack of education, or (even more disturbing) simply because they like to. Maybe it wont be so rampant as many people think. On the other hand, San Francisco is a rather large city and it may become a "Sin City" if that proposition is passed.
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