As if it weren’t silly enough that we’ve made the Word’s Oldest Profession illegal in our own country, now we’re leaning on foreign governments to ban it in their countries, too.
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it’s not that simple. i think the government is more concerned with the human trafficking end of the spectrum than they are with the legal dutch-type brothels. the two aren’t always easily separated, and eastern europe in particular has become a haven for forced prostitution. former soviet-bloc countries with struggling economies are picked clean of young women, often against their will, and herded west to service germans, french, brits, italians, and the rest of the well-off half of the continent.
fanatical, puritanical, religion-based moralizing about prostitution: baaaaaaad.
humanity-based efforts to curb a very real worldwide modern-day slavery and trafficking problem: gooooooood.
Cheap Shot! You’ve been studing at the OMN/Hanky school of journalism again. US policy is to encourage other countries to crack down on trafficking, i.e. coerced prostitution. There is a plausible argument to be made that legalized prostitution encourages trafficking, so the Ambassador’s making the connection shouldn’t be a surprise. But that’s just jawboning, and it’s irresponsible and misleading to characterize US policy as going beyond enforcing anti-trafficking measures.
I must agree with both the above two gentlemen, a very rare occurrence…
The US wants Korea to abandon and make illegal farming?
Old-fashioned? I wasn’t surprised after I saw the reporter’s email address.
Compuserve?! Wow. I was down with the Compuserve email address back when AOL was #3 in the Internet services game (1993), but dang – she sure is holding on, ain’t she?
Compuserve?!