Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: gazit@cs.duke.EDU (Hillel Gazit) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Can we sell our bodies and our rights? Message-ID: <657251841@lear.cs.duke.edu> Date: 30 Oct 90 16:54:30 GMT References: Organization: Nefolet shel nemushot (Fallout of Wimps) Lines: 27 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu In article ag1v+@andrew.cmu.EDU >IMO, no. Prostitution is outlawed in this country for two reasons. >First, the country was based on christian principles and allowing >something like prostitution would be right out. Secondly, the U.S. >government hasn't found a way to tax it yet. Not true. Legal prostitutes in Nevada pay federal tax, and the IRS had no problem to foreclose a brothel that had not paid its taxes. I support the idea of legal prostitution. I think that prostitute should pay taxes and get *real* police protection against pimps and "un-satisfied" customers. (They can't get this protection now because prostitution is illegal.) [How about Nevada where it is legal? --CLT] COYOTE (a prostitutes' organization) expressed a similar position, but I don't think that most of the anti-prostitution liberals are going to listen to the people that they want to "defend"... Hillel gazit@cs.duke.edu "The case against pornography and the case against toleration of prostitution are central to fight against rape," -- ("Against Our Will", Susan Brownmiller)