7ranz
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Take it up with the person I was responding to.
Contextually it’s very clear that I’m not the one with the problem with prostitution.
How exactly does one prevent STDs in legalized prostitution?
This is more complicated than, say, making sure marijuana customers are at least 21 & making sure they understand the risks of their drug of choice.
How about the latex allergic? Lambskin rubbers prevent pregnancy, but not stds like syphilis.
Would legalizing involve once or twice yearly gonorrhea/chlamydia testing as well as blood draw for bloodborne diseases like hepatitis and HIV?
Who pays for that testing?
WEEKLY?! Whose paying the lab bills?
Some viruses can take MONTHS to appear.
Can’t vouch for Canada obviously, but who is paying for this “weekly testing” in the U S?
The clients, maybe? Would this weekly std testing be part of the fee for a prostitute?
Ask the state of Nevada.
http://dpbh.nv.gov/Programs/STD/Sexually_Transmitted_Disease_(STD)_Prevention_and_Control_Program-Home/
In Nevada where certain counties have legal brothels - the woman is responsible for medical checkups. They have to get medically evaluated prior to being licensed and then have to have periodic STD checks. They pay for the initial screen and for periodic checks.
Also from Nevada, they get weekly genital inspection and testing and monthly blood samples for blood-borne issues.
Polyurethane and Polyisoprene condoms are alternatives to Latex condoms that offer similar levels of pregnancy and STD protection.
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.WW, PHS
zantax
309
Not sure that’s a great idea. Hey honey, which would make you more pissed, if I slept with a prostitute or some rando? Nope, been married almost thirty years, that is not a conversation that needs to take place.
zantax
310
You think the legal penalty for being an illegal prostitute is so heavy it would deter any rational woman from reporting those things? Or that police are going to actually arrest a prostitute for coming in to report? On what charge? Telling them she has turned tricks before and has a pimp? I don’t think so.
I mean, this pimp has enslaved me, makes me be a prostitute, beats me and what not and I am not going to the police because they might arrest me on a misdemeanor they can’t prove? It’s not like I am going to be a witness for them in my trial or the pimps for that matter if that’s the way they roll… And I can just imagine the jury sympathy I’d have after escaping sex slavery and being tried for being a prostitute. Good luck with that case counselor.
zantax
311
Doctor tests on Wednesday, exposed to STD Thursday, me a client on Friday. I’ll pass. Condoms won’t protect you against things like herpes or genital warts.
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zantax
312
Also kind of ignores the health of the prostitute. They are tested but not the client. It’s not like no harm was done because a doctor tested you and found if before more serious complications set in. She still might end up being saddled with something like herpes for life because nobody is testing the clients. You think OSHA would allow any other industry to expose their workers to such risks? Hey, sure, our worker got a life long disease working for me but I did pay for a doctor to diagnose it, so it’s all good.
And if your occupation is legal sex worker, do you get disability if you contract herpes and can no longer work in your field?
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SixFoot
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Nobody bartered with them for fruits or veggies.
Guvnah
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Even IF someone could actually remember the actual words of the vows he took, a marriage is (or should be) more than just defined by words. When we do that, it’s essentially an approach of doing as little as necessary and getting away with as much as possible.
Marriage is (or should be) about 100% bonding to the one we married. Even simply lusting after another – with no action taken in response to that lust – is still a matter of turning one’s heart to that other, when one’s heart is supposed to be for the spouse and none other.
Porn is lusting after the person or people on the page or on the screen. And it’s a deliberate act of doing so. Masturbation is turning one’s heart on himself, and again is a deliberate act of doing so. Just because one’s vows didn’t account for that does not change what is happening in the person’s heart.
It’s not me dictating anything on anyone. It’s a commentary on what these things are and what they do to the individual. It’s up to each individual to choose how to deal with that.
WuWei
315
Is it the purview of the government to enforce the Bible?
WuWei
317
Is it the purview of the government to protect us from ourselves?
Samm
320
You just made my argument. 
Samm
321
Who would there be to barter with? No. They were subsistence gardeners … that’s how they lived, thus it was their living.
SixFoot
322
Now you’re saying “living” when the topic was “profession”. 
btw, Adam and Eve were the first created, not the only.
