Escort Services

[prose]

Escort Services should be illegal. They are a thin veil for prostitution.

That being said, if the government does not want to make them illegal, then ALL forms of prostitution should be not only legalized, but governed. Prostitutes should be paying taxes like everyone else. If it is legal, it should certainly have legal guidelines. Women are being abused and beaten down, and then they are too scared to get help. It makes me sick.

In Edmonton here (I'm not sure if they are still doing it), they used to publicize the names and license plates of johns caught in various neighborhoods. The men should be ashamed. I think this was a great idea.

My very, very close friend just recently left an "escort service". It makes me sick what she went through. Don't kid yourself, these are not dating services.

Edited August 28, 2008 by prose

[MakeYouThink]

[quote name='Winchester' post='1621784' date='Aug 8 2008, 03:16 PM']If you have to pay someone to go out with you, you have more serious things to worry about than breaking the law.[/quote]

I agree

[Hassan]

[quote name='prose' post='1640421' date='Aug 28 2008, 11:51 AM']Escort Services should be illegal. They are a thin veil for prostitution.

That being said, if the government does not want to make them illegal, then ALL forms of prostitution should be not only legalized, but governed. Prostitutes should be paying taxes like everyone else. If it is legal, it should certainly have legal guidelines. Women are being abused and beaten down, and then they are too scared to get help. It makes me sick.

In Edmonton here (I'm not sure if they are still doing it), they used to publicize the names and license plates of johns caught in various neighborhoods. The men should be ashamed. I think this was a great idea.

My very, very close friend just recently left an "escort service". It makes me sick what she went through. Don't kid yourself, these are not dating services.[/quote]

It is sad. It is even worse in Eastern Europe, Indochina, India, and Syria.

The sex trade is utterly sick

[Balthazor]

Yeah there are a lot of "cabarets", and "escort services" here in Prague. It doesn't make it any better that the Czech Republic is known for having insanely beautiful women and insamely cheap beer. Some of them are just local female students looking to earn some money, and yes it is pretty much prostitution.

But you know there are quite a few that are Russian and Ukrainian that were pretty much sold into white slavery. A lot of the trafficking goes through Turkey and ends up here in Prague. Or they go through some Russian/Ukrainian line.....
It is sad and frustrating.

Mostly because this city runs on a tourist economy, and while a lot of people com et o see the beautiful city there are an awful lot of men who come here for cheap beer and hookers. You can always find some english stag parties wandering, very loudly, around the town at 2:00AM. One time while walking home from a friend's house party they approached me thinking I was a hooker. (I have no idea why the only skin I had showing was my nose and eyes) And boy were they surprised to hear an angry American accent!

But the point is there is so much tourist money coming in here that the police really do not do anything about it. Illegal or not.