Quote Originally Posted by DirtySouth View Post
Good points but let's face it, the world is ran by greed of the almighty dollar. It would be NICE if those things play a role, but it's obvious they do not.

For one, feminists aren't making laws. Prostitution was illegal way before the modern feminist movement took place. Feminist are against it, true, but whether they decide if it's illegal or not is a shot in the dark. Feminist aren't making the laws, older white men (sprinkle in a couple of bruthas) in D.C. are making the laws. Feminist heavily influence some laws but I think that's more to exact feminist agendas. I don't think prostitution is high on the list. Still that doesn't account to why its still illegal for males and TS to do it.

Secondly, religious officials play a large role in shaping whats moral and immoral in our country, not whats legal and illegal. Case in point - abortion. If the religious right community played that large a role in our society, abortion would have been illegal decades ago. It is not. Case in point #2 - porn. Why isn't porn illegal if the religious conservatives shape our laws? Nope. The government found a way to track it (2257 laws/Releases) and therefore tax it. The government made it into an industry in some manner of speaking.

IMO, whatever the government cannot accurately tax, it is deemed illegal. They can't efficiently tax pimps & hoes. Its almost impossible. That's why it's illegal. They can't tax the drug trade in a positive manner. Its too hard to track it and that may end up helping out other countries south of the border. If you are going to attempt to tax cocaine, then you are flirting with making it legal. We would have just legalized the drug trade and all of South America is about to become very rich off of importing drugs to the largest market for them in the world - the U.S.A. Before you know it, they will have thriving economies also able to raise money to compete on the global market and stronger military forces. Like Chris Rock said "God forbid some brown people got wealthy... We can't have that! Because drugs come from brown countries. We can't have no wealthy brown people!".

It all boils down to money.
America can't EFFICIENTLY tax anyone. Have you looked at the cost of running the IRS or your state revenue department? If it boiled down to money, we'd legalize it a la Amsterdam and many other countries. And drugs are an erroneous analogy because exactly what you said - the 3rd world would make a lot of the money from it; we've got homegrown hoes here.

Seriously, you have to recognize that money is an important part in what shapes most political decisions but in the US, religion plays a huge role, although its starting to diminish. That is the case for prostitution, I quote Wikipedia: "Originally, prostitution was widely legal in the United States. Prostitution was made illegal in almost all states between 1910 and 1915 largely due to the influence of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union which was influential in the banning of drug use and was a major force in the prohibition of alcohol." There are plenty of examples of religious zealots shaping policy in the US - John Birch society, Christian Coalition, George Bush. Money plays no role in the lack of legalization of prostitution my friend.... it would be a lot more profitable if it was legal. And by the way, porn (the act of distributing it) isn't legal in some states and Max Hardcore went to the feds for creating porn.