They and other sex workers in the red light districts of Belgium's larger cities languish in legal uncertainty and amid varying degrees of toleration.
Belgian legislators are hoping to bring that to a close with a parliamentary bill that would draw prostitutes into the legal fold and bring the industry under state control, providing sex workers with labour rights and greater health protection.
Making sex pay
- Stoic
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Making sex pay
The prostitutes on Brussels' Rue de Matheus operate day and night.
"More than hundred fucking takes." - Jackie Chan.
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- Stoic
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Maybe while Clinton was in office... but I doubt bush would do it....
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- kthulhu
- Joined: Thu May 30, 2002 6:01 pm
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I WISH America did that.
Legalized prostitution would be:
Safer for the prostitutes (no violent, slaver pimp and no serial killers/rapists, among other dangers)
Safer for the customers (no pimp, no chance of being robbed by a prostitute, disease can be kept in check)
Safer for public health (prostitutes can be checked for STDs, there's a "trail" if disease occurs)
Safer for the community (brothels can be located out of town, less criminal activity)
Good for the tax coffers.
Besides the questionable "degradation and objectification of women as just sex toys", which already exists for many women (and men), and in far more dangerous circumstances, I fail to see why prostitution is illegal, besides some lame "think of the children!" and "think of OUR morals!" types freaking out.
Legalized prostitution would be:
Safer for the prostitutes (no violent, slaver pimp and no serial killers/rapists, among other dangers)
Safer for the customers (no pimp, no chance of being robbed by a prostitute, disease can be kept in check)
Safer for public health (prostitutes can be checked for STDs, there's a "trail" if disease occurs)
Safer for the community (brothels can be located out of town, less criminal activity)
Good for the tax coffers.
Besides the questionable "degradation and objectification of women as just sex toys", which already exists for many women (and men), and in far more dangerous circumstances, I fail to see why prostitution is illegal, besides some lame "think of the children!" and "think of OUR morals!" types freaking out.
I'm out...
- Kazutaka
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I agree w/you because this country is STILL run by CONSERVITIVE WHITE PROSTANT CHRISTIANS who want to force thier morals onto you.
....... There that is all I have to say about that.

....... There that is all I have to say about that.

"Light in the absence of eyes illuminates nothing. Visible forms are not inherent in the world but are granted by the act of seeing. Events contain no meaning in themselves only the meaning that the mind imposes on them...yet the world endures,...whether or not the mind exists..."
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Kazutaka wrote:I agree w/you because this country is STILL run by CONSERVITIVE WHITE PROSTANT CHRISTIANS who want to force thier morals onto you.
....... There that is all I have to say about that.













- the Black Monarch
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Not true. There would still be pimps, but they would be called "agents" or "managers" or something.kthulhu wrote:no pimp
"This Guido... is he your manager... or a pimp?"
"I've got a trig midterm tomorrow and I'm being chased by Guido the killer pimp!"
Ask me about my secret stash of videos that can't be found anywhere anymore.
- Kazutaka
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Organized religion (no matter what it is) is a bad thing, it puts ideas (sometimes dangerous ones) into peoples heads, tells them to go out and convert/recruit other people, wants your time, money, family, life, war, mind control, force morals onto others and leads to being a hypocrite.
There is no true freedom of religion when there are so many different ones in competition for the worlds population.
I have my own beliefs, I dont tell anyone about them unless they ask. I dont try to convert them to my way of thinking or morals and I DO NOT like it when they try to convert me to thier belief system.
There is no true freedom of religion when there are so many different ones in competition for the worlds population.
I have my own beliefs, I dont tell anyone about them unless they ask. I dont try to convert them to my way of thinking or morals and I DO NOT like it when they try to convert me to thier belief system.
"Light in the absence of eyes illuminates nothing. Visible forms are not inherent in the world but are granted by the act of seeing. Events contain no meaning in themselves only the meaning that the mind imposes on them...yet the world endures,...whether or not the mind exists..."
- Veldrin
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