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Zeus posted...

Considering the feminist movement didn't exist back when prostitution became illegal, it's a facetious, disingenuous argument (if not an outright deceitful one).

Zeus posted...

Overlooking that's bullshit, you're essentially -- as Adjl put it -- making a tautology. Saying "oh religion" ignores the fact that religion doesn't exist in a vacuum and, just like government, tends to reflect existing cultural norms.

By "religion" I mean Catholicism/Christianity which has it's fingers all up inside our government. Saying feminism didn't exist is crazy as it's always existed to some degree, it's an idea, and it certainly has been an idea far before it was such a strong movement and women in general had so much power and the ability to exercise it themselves.

Religion doesn't exist in a vacuum, but it can be created in a distant past and follow rules that society as a whole no longer agrees with. I think, in today's world, if there was a vote in many states, prostitution would become legal. I'm pretty sure it would for CA, WA, Oregon, probably NY etc.

It should be a right to do with your body what you want, as long as you are not harming anyone else. Government should not be involved in that, or protecting marriage (a big reason to make prostitution illegal, and a big reason it might not pass if voted on are wives who don't want husbands easily tempted to cheat etc).

Even if a majority wanted prostitution to be illegal, it should be a basic human right, and the government should not be able to tell us what to do with our own bodies, what to spend our money on etc, if it is not causing harm to others (or possibly ourselves).

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