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Re:Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prosti... by rayiner on Friday July 18, 2014 @04:48PM (#8055547)
It doesn't have to make the prostitute always worse off, or worse off at all. Many other people might be impacted as a result of the changes in social dynamic from turning sex into a commodity.
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Re:Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prosti... by icebraining on Friday July 18, 2014 @05:30PM (#8055742)
That would be a good argument if criminalizing prostitution made it go away, but only a very foolish person would believe this to be the case.
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Re:Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prosti... by jiggy2011 on Friday July 18, 2014 @04:56PM (#8055581)
Would it necessarily have any impact outside of the people engaging in it? It won't turn all sex into a commodity.
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Re:Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prosti... by heylefty on Friday July 18, 2014 @08:05PM (#8056192)
Everything in the universe is impacted by everything else that happens.

That's a useless tautology.

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