Comments on: Prohibition and Craigslist’s victimless crime: on legalizing prostitution http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/14/prohibition-and-craigslist%e2%80%99s-victimless-crime/ A critical review of food, drinks, culture, and cognition Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:38:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: STD_Dirty http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/14/prohibition-and-craigslist%e2%80%99s-victimless-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-1872 STD_Dirty Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:36:35 +0000 http://blindtaste.com/?p=300#comment-1872 I don't know that legalizing sex would be the answer. It seems that if we look at the statistics world wide, it is depressing. "The WHO estimates that 340 million new cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis occurred throughout the world in 1999 in men and women aged 15-49 years. The largest number of new infections occurred in the region of South & Southeast Asia, followed by sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America & the Caribbean. The highest rate of new cases per 1,000 population occurred in sub-Saharan Africa." The World Health Organization. I don't know what the answer is, but clearly what we are doing now is not working. I try to educate young people. It is amazing what they don't know. Parents are not educating their children at home and then they can't understand how they come home with an STD or unwanted pregnancy. I don’t know that legalizing sex would be the answer. It seems that if we look at the statistics world wide, it is depressing.

“The WHO estimates that 340 million new cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis occurred throughout the world in 1999 in men and women aged 15-49 years. The largest number of new infections occurred in the region of South & Southeast Asia, followed by sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America & the Caribbean. The highest rate of new cases per 1,000 population occurred in sub-Saharan Africa.” The World Health Organization.

I don’t know what the answer is, but clearly what we are doing now is not working. I try to educate young people. It is amazing what they don’t know. Parents are not educating their children at home and then they can’t understand how they come home with an STD or unwanted pregnancy.

]]> By: DENNYloveinundies http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/14/prohibition-and-craigslist%e2%80%99s-victimless-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-1651 DENNYloveinundies Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:47:47 +0000 http://blindtaste.com/?p=300#comment-1651 And then what happened? And then what happened?

]]> By: Ryan Sager - Neuroworld - Thinking About Drugs and Prostitutes - True/Slant http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/14/prohibition-and-craigslist%e2%80%99s-victimless-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Ryan Sager - Neuroworld - Thinking About Drugs and Prostitutes - True/Slant Sun, 17 May 2009 22:44:35 +0000 http://blindtaste.com/?p=300#comment-271 [...] Goldstein, over at Blind Taste, looks at the issues of prostitution and drug legalization in a way I hadn’t quite thought of: in terms of opposition to both stemming from a cognitive [...] [...] Goldstein, over at Blind Taste, looks at the issues of prostitution and drug legalization in a way I hadn’t quite thought of: in terms of opposition to both stemming from a cognitive [...]

]]> By: Joseph Logan http://blindtaste.com/2009/05/14/prohibition-and-craigslist%e2%80%99s-victimless-crime/comment-page-1/#comment-247 Joseph Logan Fri, 15 May 2009 08:47:44 +0000 http://blindtaste.com/?p=300#comment-247 People sometimes make the mistake of thinking that marijuana and prostitution are legal in the Netherlands, where I live. It is actually in the selective (lack of) enforcement of laws that pot and hookers can thrive. I'm not sure from a legal standpoint how a behavior can be both illegal and well-regulated, but that's how it works here. I live in a genteel neighborhood in The Hague, and there is an upscale brothel and three coffeeshops within a block of where I live. When the police are in the neighborhood, which is rare, they are usually doing alcohol checkpoints or writing tickets for riding a bike at night without lights. Simply put, people just have bigger things to worry about. People sometimes make the mistake of thinking that marijuana and prostitution are legal in the Netherlands, where I live. It is actually in the selective (lack of) enforcement of laws that pot and hookers can thrive. I’m not sure from a legal standpoint how a behavior can be both illegal and well-regulated, but that’s how it works here. I live in a genteel neighborhood in The Hague, and there is an upscale brothel and three coffeeshops within a block of where I live. When the police are in the neighborhood, which is rare, they are usually doing alcohol checkpoints or writing tickets for riding a bike at night without lights. Simply put, people just have bigger things to worry about.

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