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1. I agree, no questions here
2. agree too
3. undecided on this one though. I mean, it really depends, if one country suddenly legalizes prostitution where it wasn't historically part of that culture, at least in wide-spread, it-exist-but-we-don't-talk-about-it format, then yeah, any person working openly as a sex worker would very probably receive some sort negative reaction from community. It might go away in few years, it might not, depending on society. As far as work interviews go though, from my experience you don't
have to list every job you worked for when applying, so from where I'm standing this is a moot point though I see what you are trying to say.
So in the end it all boils down how to prevent people from being exploited. Mind you, in ideal society? In ideal society you would not have to pay for sex because sex would be either something so easy to come by (which it already is, in some places) or people would be interesting in something more transcendent than lowly meat pleasures. Or maybe it would be society without money. Idealistic thinking, I know.
I'm also not quite sure how I feel about gun comparison. Guns are tools designed to project (lethal) force and while they can be used in self defense they can also very easily be uses for variety of misdeed where on the receiving end is usually not the gun owner but someone else. Where prostitution's aim is not generally that of getting it's client hurt. If anyone, it is usually the worker that get's it...
This is getting a bit long-winded but I think we can agree that the end goal should be people having decent lives, with decent income and not being exploited, one way or the other. *shrug*
Note to self: Create fully automatic water-cooled oil-cooled machine prostitute. (The sexy kind of oil, of course, not that black stuff!)
YES