Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ora!daemon From: robert@span.cs.unlv.edu (Robert Cray) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Can we sell our bodies and our rights? Message-ID: <2131@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> Date: 30 Oct 90 00:30:00 GMT References: Sender: ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) Reply-To: robert@jimi.cs.unlv.edu (Robert Cray) Organization: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Lines: 32 Approved: ambar@ora.com In article ag1v+@andrew.cmu.EDU ("Andrea B. Gansley-Ortiz") writes: >Jones Murphy asks: >(paraphrased) Should we allow women to rent their vaginas in one way but >not in another? >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. I'm not sure what christian values have to do with anything. I have nothing against christianity, but it should be part of our government only to the extent that it influences individual voters, and does not conflict with the constitution. Laws should not have to pass some sort of "christianity" test. Nevada has found a way to tax prostitution, you simply require a license, for which you charge a fee. The federal government taxes Nevada brothels as it would tax any other business. Why prostitution should be singled out for some special form of taxation is not clear to me.... The issue of surrogate mothers is a little trickier when there is a genetic bond between the surrogate mother, and one of the parents who contracted her. [Perhaps you mean between the surrogate mother and the child she has been contracted to bear? -- AMBAR] --robert -- robert@jimi.cs.unlv.edu