Average Dreams for an Average Reality

With this new economic status that we are in it is hard to make your nut, no pun intended.  Just to break even and not go into debt is a real challenge now a days.  People are getting layed off left and right.  They are unsure of where their next meal is going to come from.  We are in a current state of panic where average is in fact anything but that.  Average is now considered above average.  The days of ten thousand dollar bonuses and all inclusive healthcare are far behind.  Even the thousand dollar a night call girl is now charging two hundred and fifty dollars an hour. So what is one to do?  This excerpt from a local paper reads,  "Shana, 42, lost her $45,000-a-year job as a secretary last year. Sienna [who's working on her graduate degree in English Lit] was laid off in July from her job as an executive assistant with a travel agency. Shana, who worked briefly as a waitress before hooking up with her current gig, is putting her son through college. 'He's trying to get an engineering degree,' she explained. 'With the economy the way it is, how is my son going to get a loan? And he's going to finish college."  People will do whatever it takes to continue on the status quo.  No one is trying to get rich, only trying to get bye.  Who is to say if that is okay or not?  Not you or I.  If prostitution is a means to an end, and it is a necessity to make money, then I say go for it!  Make your nut, and save some for a rainy day or a college fund.

Money, Madness, and Making things better!

Anti-prostitution laws are extremely expensive to uphold.  The average city in the United States spends upwards of 8 million dollars on prostitution control annually.  That is at an average rate of approximately two thousand dollars per case tried. Regardless of this fact, the streets continue to play host to a plethora of prostitutes.  Throwing money at the prostitution “problem” makes things worse.  This problem has a domino effect.  One problem on the street begets another problem.  It becomes a very slippery slope and a dangerous one as well.  The money spent by cities has become the band-aid to the prostitution bullet wound.  These prostitutes are fearful of the long arm of the law so where do they turn?  The answer is almost always “underground”.  Doesn’t that sound safe?!  Of course it doesn’t!  This is where the problems begin happening.  Rape, drug use, and abuse from pimps are just some of the sad realities that begin to occur in the criminal underworld.  Instead, why not use the cities money to keep prostitutes safe?  Why not set up a union, whereby street workers can pay dues?  Participation in the contribution of such dues could allow an inclusion of brothels for rent, medical treatment, safe sex regulations, and other positive standards which will allow for the ever present and ever thriving prostitutes to be safe and avoid the terror which awaits them when they are forced to ply their trade out of sight.  On the backside, no pun intended, the government can tax these sex workers and contribute to the real problems with prostitution.  Now instead of wasting money the state would be earning some, which in this economy is almost unheard of!  The appropriation of these funds can now help lead to the conviction of charges brought against the rapists, and the pimps who would by this time be forced out of their holes!

Cheat in the Street!

Sure men cheat on their wives and women cheat on their husbands too! Hell, sometimes that cheating can be with an escort. "Escort", is just a fancy name for prostitute. These escorts affording their company to a man or woman, married or not, is not the cheating that’s raising eyebrows all over the united states. Instead, its the cheating and “discreeting” that’s got this pro prostitution punk all bent out of shape. The justice system is unfair! I know its been said many times, but its the truth! The cops and the judges and everyone else involved in the arrests of prostitutes and bias and pragmatic and calculated. You may not agree with me but the statistics never lie. Ninety percent of arrests made in prostitution cases lead to incarceration of the prostitute. Only ten percent of the arrests are made on the "johns". This is terrible and its extremely bias. The powers that be are clearly making the arrests on the prostitutes because in order to fight a case one needs money. Prostitutes have very little. They can not afford a lawyer. So slap on the cuffs and go for a ride because these street people are not getting out of jail any time soon! The johns, however, can afford a lawyer. This leads to fighting the case, appeals, court time, and ultimately way more man power and tax payer dollars. That sounds challenging and complicated. Well lets just let the john go and arrest another prostitute! Anti-prostitution laws are prejudiced!

Sometimes the Tops Hit the Bottom

"Former Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer on June 6, 2007 signed into law legislation to prevent human trafficking and to suppress the demand for prostitution. New York’s punishment for patronizing prostitutes changed from a Class B misdemeanor (3 months jail/$500 fine) to a Class A (1 year jail/$1,000 fine) misdemeanor. The new law also clarified the statute Promoting Prostitution in the Third Degree, listed as a class D felony, to include those who run prostitution tourism businesses. A Class B felony was created for those involved in sex trafficking. [Note: Governor Spitzer announced his resignation on Mar. 12, 2008 over confirmed reports of his having patronized a prostitute.]"  If Governors are using prostitutes then its safe to say that others are too.  I can not believe that he is the only one.  The punishment is currently worse than most other misdemeanors in its class.  Is that fair?