How should Richmond solve its prostitution problem?
You might have seen this article in the Times-Dispatch yesterday talking about the recent arrests of men soliciting the “companionship” of undercover police officers posing as “ladies of the night.” The article claims that they make about the same number of arrests each year, indicating that police efforts are making no real difference on the […]
You might have seen this article in the Times-Dispatch yesterday talking about the recent arrests of men soliciting the “companionship” of undercover police officers posing as “ladies of the night.”
The article claims that they make about the same number of arrests each year, indicating that police efforts are making no real difference on the issue.
The article raises an interesting question: When trying to curb prostitution, is it more effective to target the johns or the individuals offering up their “services”?
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Valerie Catrow
Valerie Catrow is editor of RVAFamily, mother to a mop-topped first grader, and always really excited to go to bed.
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Make it legal and tax that junk!!
No point in targeting the poor guys. It’s that whole “give a man a fish vs. teach a man to fish” thing but in reverse. If the pros are around there will be guys looking for them.
Besides, these guys probably singlehandedly fund the city health system’s penicillin trade. They’re only trying to stimulate the economy.
I like john_m’s approach described here.
Check out Happy Endings? a documentary on Asian massage parlors in Rhode Island where prostitution where prostitution is legal behind closed doors. The reason many people want prostitution laws is to get it off the streets, when RI changed it’s prostitution laws it did so to make it illegal on the streets and legal behind closed doors in 1980. Since then there has been a significant decrease in the number of women working in the streets.
by embracing it. legalize it for sure.
Yes, Richmond shouldn’t be wasting valuable time, money and effort on stupid things like baseball, performing arts centers, etc. Give the people what they want. They want to get laid. Build a Richmond red light district, test and screen all prostitutes and tax them for each customer served. We’d all be rolling in the cash…
It’s funny, but in all my time in Richmond, I have never seen a female prostitute. Maybe if we legalized it, we could finally open up the market to women.
We have a prostitution problem … ?
Prostitution is the least of Richmond’s problems.
Just because it doesn’t affect you personally doesn’t mean it’s not a big problem. IJS.
Agreed! Prostitution sounds like Bonnie & Clyde to the majority of us: a romantic view on crime. . . Prostitution is not necessarily a victimless crime. Think of all the human trafficking!