Selling sex in legal in New Zealand


Examining the effects
Something like this makes sense to me.

When "Sophie", a medical worker from Christchurch, fell behind on her mortgage payments last year, she found that her job was not paying enough. Her only option was a temporary career change: she became a prostitute.
"I needed money fast so I didn't lose my house," she explains.

A soft-spoken 30-something with a shy smile, Sophie does not look like the stereotypical scarlet woman, even in the low-cut dress she wears at work.

She does not feel like one either. "I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I'm a vegetarian," she says, adding that she had qualms about her new job.

But the city centre parlour she joined - basically a pub with a sitting area at the front and bedrooms at the back - was not the drug-fuelled dive she had imagined.

"All the women here are lovely," she says. "We spend a lot of time sitting and talking. I'll stick it out a bit longer."

Vice laws strike me as incredibly silly anyway. They won't stop the behavior, and if no one is hurt, why should it matter?

Look at almost any vice law you like, you'll find that the "problems" associated with that crime are not because of the act itself, but because it is illegal.

In this case, I don't see anything wrong, especially if the ladies are clean and disease free. Pardon, that was incredibly sexist of me. I should have said "especially if the sex workers are clean and disease free." I have no excuse and I have already been yelled at by a guest who was reading my iBook over my shoulder.

More importantly, can you spot a vice law that doesn't have a basis in religion?

It's the difference between mala prohibita laws and mala in se laws again.

Government has lousy morals and worse ethics.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - March 20, 2009 at 03:25 PM  Tag


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