I mentioned in a post some months ago that I think it would be a really great idea to limit prostitution to government owned and controlled brothels. This would be a complete tournaround from the current Norwegian policies of banning purchase of sexual services. As such I will compare the potential benefits, and potential problems, of government controlled brothels from the point of view that prostitution is effectivly criminalized.
I have no, or very little information to back up my arguments and assumptions, other than what goes on inside my head.
The idea is basicly: The government controlls, taxes and runs the brothels, which are the only legal marketplaces for sexual services. Prostitution outside these institutions is strictly illegal.
Pros:
Not forcing the 'industry' underground, thus getting a more transparent market and making it more difficult for criminal organizations and exploitation of those in the profession.
Increased controlled with illegal immigration.
Controll with STD's and HIV through regular testing and (possibly) increased use of condoms.
Safer enviorment for both customer and professional.
Income for the state, which we need when the oil runs out or is made largely redundant.
Possibility to recomend (or demand) rehabilitation programmes to people who enter the profession in search for money for drugs or alcohol.
Prostitution is the oldest profession in the world and one that I think is impossible to get rid of.
Cons:
Moral objections which I find irrelevant considering the practical advantages of my proposal.
Lack of people willing to enter into the profession.
People employing themselves in the 'industry' as a last resort, and rather unwillingly but in need of the income. Is this ethicly questionable?
(I think not. It is still a free choice and even more so in a country as Norway with a good welfare system).
I have trouble finding more flaws with my suggestion, but if you (my few visitors) have suggestions (preferably for cons, but also for pros) feel free to leave them in a comment.
fredag 15. mai 2009
Anoying people in my vicinity.
Transcript from lecture notes.
Big-fat-girl wearing a black t-shirt, red and yellow scarf (worn over the shoulder, rather than around the neck, sort of like a shawl), and a long white skirt. Is she trying to disguise her uglyness by dressing like a (red and yellow) cloaked killer whale?
Hip-hop man with a cap. I hate caps and hip-hop men.
Big nosed guy who writes on his macbook Air with his right middle-finger and left index finger. Writing like that is not allowed unless you are crippled, or have got something sticky on your fingers you don't want to get on your keyboard (like semen).
The most anoying person in my vicinity is however the 'average' girl sitting one row down and a few seats to the right of me. She seems the typical girl who sees conformity as the road to attractiveness; and the road to conformity through the tanning bed and over a barbed wire fence to put the finninshing holes in her pants. The crust of makeup cracks open when she smiles, like a piece of dry barren earth in an earthquake, strangling whatever remains of healthy, natural skin.
Pearl earrings! By a random diety! How I despise pearl earrings! Why do young women insist on wearing old lady jewlery?
Beside her lies her backpack. It is black with the word 'MOT' written in red letters on it. 'MOT' (meaning 'courage', and also 'against', in Norwegian) is an organization aiming to spread information and prevent moccery, violence and drugabuse which I believe mainly targets thirteen / fourteen year-olds. Important statement you are sporting there girl! I seem to respect you much more now!
*barf*
Most of the people in this auditorium have old, worn down waterbottles, filled with tapwater. 'Statement girl', however, has two bottles of UNICEF water. Now this is something I have come to hate. You buy some water and UNICEF gets some money. But, if you had brought water from home and given the money you would have spent on water to UNICEF they would have gotten more. The tapwater here in Norway is just as good as the bottled water anyway. As such, the UNICEF water becomes nothing more than a tool for self obsessed cunt-heads to show off how politically correct and generous they are.
It's a smart move from UNICEF to recognize the potential market in theese people though. It's not as if she would have donated anything otherwise. Slap a keffiyeh on her and she's readdy to go!
(I must have been thoroughly annoyed that day).
Big-fat-girl wearing a black t-shirt, red and yellow scarf (worn over the shoulder, rather than around the neck, sort of like a shawl), and a long white skirt. Is she trying to disguise her uglyness by dressing like a (red and yellow) cloaked killer whale?
Hip-hop man with a cap. I hate caps and hip-hop men.
Big nosed guy who writes on his macbook Air with his right middle-finger and left index finger. Writing like that is not allowed unless you are crippled, or have got something sticky on your fingers you don't want to get on your keyboard (like semen).
The most anoying person in my vicinity is however the 'average' girl sitting one row down and a few seats to the right of me. She seems the typical girl who sees conformity as the road to attractiveness; and the road to conformity through the tanning bed and over a barbed wire fence to put the finninshing holes in her pants. The crust of makeup cracks open when she smiles, like a piece of dry barren earth in an earthquake, strangling whatever remains of healthy, natural skin.
Pearl earrings! By a random diety! How I despise pearl earrings! Why do young women insist on wearing old lady jewlery?
Beside her lies her backpack. It is black with the word 'MOT' written in red letters on it. 'MOT' (meaning 'courage', and also 'against', in Norwegian) is an organization aiming to spread information and prevent moccery, violence and drugabuse which I believe mainly targets thirteen / fourteen year-olds. Important statement you are sporting there girl! I seem to respect you much more now!
*barf*
Most of the people in this auditorium have old, worn down waterbottles, filled with tapwater. 'Statement girl', however, has two bottles of UNICEF water. Now this is something I have come to hate. You buy some water and UNICEF gets some money. But, if you had brought water from home and given the money you would have spent on water to UNICEF they would have gotten more. The tapwater here in Norway is just as good as the bottled water anyway. As such, the UNICEF water becomes nothing more than a tool for self obsessed cunt-heads to show off how politically correct and generous they are.
It's a smart move from UNICEF to recognize the potential market in theese people though. It's not as if she would have donated anything otherwise. Slap a keffiyeh on her and she's readdy to go!
(I must have been thoroughly annoyed that day).
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