Darrell_Johnston wrote: ↑September 23rd, 2018, 8:47 am
Contrarian Expatriate wrote: ↑September 23rd, 2018, 4:18 am
Prostitution would immediately lower the sexual market value of every woman in America since the supply of sex would increase hugely. That being the case, mainstream women would see their bargaining power over men decline precipitously feminists will not let that happen.
Its been legal in amsterdam for ever and it hasnt prevented non whores from finding men.
I cant think of any country where legal prostiution or high prostiution rates has any impact on regular relationships
That's not a very good comparison for three reasons:
1. The average Dutch woman is 10x more attractive than the average American women thus their ability to attract remains constant.
2. The prostitution is Holland is essentially a highly regulated (brothel-based), tourist magnet for the Red Light District.
3. Most of the prostitutes in Holland are older and/or less attractive than average Dutch women therefore they primarily only appeal to desperate foreign men.
But your premise is false as well because:
In 1970, no fewer than 123 521 marriages were concluded in the Netherlands, an all-time high. Since then, the number of marriages has steadily declined, to 64 549 in 2013. The Dutch population, on the other hand, rose from approximately 13 million in 1970 to almost 17 million people in 2013, so that the crude marriage rate dropped even more sharply, from 9.5 marriages per 1 000 inhabitants in 1970 to only 3.8 per 1 000 in 2013. Figure 1 shows how the marriage rate and number of marriages continued to decline between 2000 and 2013.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistic ... _marriages
Finally, I put it to you that Japan and Germany are two examples where marriage has been hugely plummeting due, in part, to the somewhat more open and free legality of prostitution than Holland.