Aseahawkfan wrote:What would you consider someone telling you that you can't have sex with someone for money as an adult or you'll pay a huge fine or go to jail? Is that control over your body or not?
It is still control over their bodies. If they want charge someone money for screwing them, they should be able to. It's their body, what they do with it is up to them. It's basically saying we decided you can't allow someone to have to sex with for money unless you're in porn of course since that is classified as entertainment. It's just another one of those strange lines in America with all types of loopholes that creates a crime that should not exist. Get rid of prostitution as a crime. If women or men want to earn money having sex with their bodies, that's their business. Get rid of the pimps, make testing good, and make it a regulated and taxed business.
I guess you can look at it that way, but there's all sorts of examples of people not being able to do certain things with their bodies. If you're under 21, you can't put alcohol into it, can't put controlled substances into it, can't commit suicide (legally), and so on. I just don't think you've chosen a good analogy, but so be it. I'm in basic agreement with your premise, so we're arguing over semantics.
I do agree that prostitution should be legal, but that it should be state regulated. Otherwise, there's just too many other bad things associated with it, including health issues, organized crime, human trafficing, etc. It would also give citizens some control over where those businesses or activities can exist, how they can advertize, etc.