Re:Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem?
by pmarreck on Friday January 27, 2023 @01:16PM
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Here are your numbers:
The time Rhode Island "accidentally" legalized prostitution for a number of years, and then made it illegal again, and the correlations to public health that seemed to result from this:
Scroll down to the section "Researchers take notice" if you are low on time.
They used surrounding states as a control. They tried hard to account for the consequences, but that pesky 40% drop in gonorrhea and 30% drop in rapes (!) just wouldn't go away (and also doesn't fit the feminist narrative that rape is "only about power")
The time Rhode Island "accidentally" legalized prostitution for a number of years, and then made it illegal again, and the correlations to public health that seemed to result from this:
https://whyy.org/articles/prostitution-decriminalized-rhode-...
Scroll down to the section "Researchers take notice" if you are low on time.
They used surrounding states as a control. They tried hard to account for the consequences, but that pesky 40% drop in gonorrhea and 30% drop in rapes (!) just wouldn't go away (and also doesn't fit the feminist narrative that rape is "only about power")