Comments on: S.F. Weighs Decriminalizing Prostitution

Proposition Would Forbid Local Authorities From Going After Sex Workers

[robert2237]

WatUsayBoy1 - I think I have seen this same post from this guy on every blog on every news site. I am starting to think it is one of the chosen ones boys. No I am sure it is, Enjoy you kool aide.

[robert2237]

People I really think people should take a look at San Franc-sicko and ask yourself, is the type of palce I want to be living in. Although San Francisco is a very nice place to visit, I would not want to live my life seeing some of the junk that goes on there daily. If we keep going for these far left senators and congressment that is where we are headed. This place just tells you what the far left wants to make of this country.

[irmcvet97]

How do you have prostitution in a city that does''''nt have any normal man, women relationships.
Next they will want the government to treat all Aids patients for free.

Posted by gunfighter51 at 06:21 AM : Oct 22, 2008

Now Sparky I have been to this CITY MANY times and I have talked to the people there MANY times. YOU are just a bigot and a LIAR! That''s all that can be said for you. UNTIL we stop attacking everyone in this nation and start LISTENING to what people are saying, solutions to our problems can not be found. Reasonable people can agree or disagree with this action but to condemn the entire City because a few people are involved in Democracy is NOT going to help any at all.

[irmcvet97]

WatUsayBoy1 - You''''re an ******

Posted by guyfrompa49 at 08:14 AM : Oct 22, 2008

Why is that? Because he''s concerned about some Radicals who want to break up this nation? Kinda sick on all that snake oil you drank under the Bush Administration?

[p0ntific8r]

A couple of points: Rome did not fall until after the rise of Christendom within the Roman Empire. Calling these people %u201Cwhores%u201D as runningralph has done is simply one of the many ways to demean and dehumanize them rather than looking for ways to help.

[sereptaann]

So this won''t make it legal, which means it will just go on unchecked. At least if it were legal they could implement laws to protect the prostitutes from themselves and other, mandatory health checks, etc. This way they are just expanding a nasty problem, so really stupid in my opinion.

[grumpas]

Everyone would be happy, the Kalifornicators because they have their utopia and the rest of us because they have our place of eternal damnation!!!


Posted by bob5ford

People like you are the sickos who are destroying this country! Grow up! It''s one more thing lunatics like you waste millions on annually trying to control. You would think eventually you would grow up and realize it''s like drugs, alcohol and *** out of marriage. You can''t control it. Get a life outside your religion!

[formrusmcsgt]

Who employs prostitutes? Who sustains the market?

While some "Johns" may be single men who are totally inept at establishing relationships with women, the lion''s share are most certainly husbands who are straying.

If the "romance" at home is not fulfilling, the logical thing to do would be to fix it or end it rather than buying a surrogate.

[CBSTV]

It''s about time! Perhaps a trend will be started.

[clew37]

Readers here seem to forget that for most of the last century the average age of a prostitute was 16. Over the last decade it has dropped to 14. San Francisco would just be legalizing pedophilia, which seems to be many a boys dream come true. This is NOT the world''s oldest "profession"! You don''t have ******** 101 courses at school. You don''t have kids saying "mommy, I want to be a hooker when I grow up". All you have is pain, fear, disease and lives being sold. They said the slavery of the blacks would never end too, but they stopped the slave ships. No one has ever tried, or very much cared about the everyday, casual slavery of women and children. This are war veterans that are beaten, shot , starved, raped and tortured, but they''ll never see anyone admitting it. Acceptance of this state of life may not seem bad to some people, but it sure as heck isn''t good.

[ddaymichael]

Since you can''t stop it, and thousands of years of history tells us that you can''t...you might as well control it.

[honestabe8]

Remember this, folks...if prostitutes get to be unionized, then the ones with the most seniority get the lion''s share of the business...ewwwww..70 year old hookers...

[lawyertom1]

It will make no difference if the measure passes. As we lawyers say, the field has been occupied by State law. As such, any decriminalization by SF will be preempted by State law. Nice try, no cigar.

[dbstevens]

I guess I can agree with the "behind closed doors" as in Rhode Island. But openly public prostitution bothers me a great deal because of kids'' exposure to it. Kids these days already have a hard enough time with the pressure of drugs, ***, and damaging lifestyles. To publicly condone this shallow and heartless lifestyle is not a good idea.

[pirmin3]

Good idea. Welcome to the 21st century.

[nothappyatall]

Ancient Rome under the pagan emperors had a prostitution tax. And in pagan Rome, society had liberal attitudes towards all forms of sexuality. Even child prostitution was accepted.

Posted by liberate40 "

Pedophilia was normal in Greece, it was how boys learned I guess, the Greeks, and the Pompei days- s3x and nudity was totally accepted. in Switzerland a woman topless in a park hardly draws a second glance.

"You have just defined the basis for animal rights activism.
Posted by VoidMaster"

The AR crowd is like the anti abortion crowd- the kind who kill doctors and blow up clinics- both are NUTS, but what someone does in PRIVATE behind closed doors is not a crime and is unenforceable.

[liberate40]

Ancient Rome under the pagan emperors had a prostitution tax. And in pagan Rome, society had liberal attitudes towards all forms of sexuality. Even child prostitution was accepted. As for how San Francisco goes, well anything goes. If Prop. K passes, San Francisco should implement a prostitution tax to help deal with healthcare costs for the prostitutes. They will need treatment from STDs and future prevention.

[eroosevelt08]

Also, if licensed and paying income tax, prostitutes would earn credits toward their social security for their retirement years. A law to license prostitues and have health status requirements might stop the mob''s interest in it.

[caliengineer]

If they do this, I hope they will also cause prostitutes to register. They should all have mandatory STD checks- regularly - and disease prevention and identification classes.
The registration place should offer counseling for sexual abuse and assistance for vocational training, tutors for college classes, drug rehab, etcetera.

Prostitutes are people. Simply not arresting them is sick. Care for them!!! Many prostitutes were rejected early in life and need encouragement and assistance. Sometimes it takes just ONE person to care.

[kansas1946]

A grand idea. It is idiotic that it is illegal to start with.