Title: Is Prostitution a Victimless Crime? - Prostitution - ProCon.org
Headings: Is Prostitution a Victimless Crime?
Is Prostitution a Victimless Crime?
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CON (no)
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Content: And they will use that power.” 2000 - Harry Browne
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The San Francisco Bay Guardian, in its Jan. 28, 2004 editorial “Decriminalize Sex Work,” stated: “San Francisco alone spends tens of millions of dollars a year cracking down on victimless crimes like gambling, drug use, and prostitution. The cops arrest sex workers; the Sheriff’s Office has to process them and pay an average of $94 a day to keep them in jail. The District Attorney’s Office has to pour resources into prosecuting the cases, and since many of the people arrested don’t have the money for private lawyers, the Public Defender’s Office has to defend them…
Law enforcement efforts haven’t made a dent in the city’s sex work industry and never will. But careful decriminalization, combined with strict regulation, could and would end much of the exploitation that takes place in the underground economy.” Jan. 28, 2004 - San Francisco Bay Guardian
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Sue Bradford, Member of New Zealand’s Parliament, in her Dec. 12, 2005 speech to Parliament, stated: “We believed, and still do, that it was completely wrong to go on living with an archaic law which criminalised generations of sex workers, mainly women, for a victimless so called crime in the name of antique moralities shared by only some of the population.” Dec. 12, 2005 - Sue Bradford
CON (no)
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Katie Pedigo, JD, Executive Director of New Friends New Life, in a Mar. 19, 2013 article for aljazeera.com titled “Prostitution: