Outcast9428 wrote: ↑August 16th, 2022, 9:08 pm@MrMan A few cities doesn't really reflect a societal trend. But let's say you, @Lucas88 and @jamesbond are correct that historically Protestant societies criminalized or did not tolerate prostitution on a more frequent basis. If that is the case, then that does not reflect well on the successfulness of banning prostitution. All of the historically Protestant societies are now the ones that have gone the furthest to the left. The UK, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Denmark are all very leftist.
If historically Protestant societies were more harsh on prostitution, then this would explain a lot of that. If you want your traditional society to remain a traditional society, you have to allow prostitution or else people will fall into liberalism. Look at what happened in the United States? They started cracking down on prostitution during the 1910s and then women won voting rights, started entering the workforce, and hookups almost immediately became more common. The Great Depression set that back a little and so did WW2. After WW2 America had a bit of a conservative revival in the 50s, but that quickly fell apart in the 1960s.
You cannot maintain traditionalism without prostitution. It angers a lot of men and then feminists exploit men's sexual frustration and say "See! Its those religious, traditional, patriarchal people's fault that you have to wait until you are 25 and married before you can have sex. If you support us on the other hand, we'll let you get laid whenever you can convince a woman to let you sleep with her."
Sexuality is like a river, trying to stop it is the most idiotic thing anyone can do. Traditionalism should never attempt to stop the river from flowing. What we ought to do is dam certain parts of the river, control and direct it so that it doesn't flood our cities and becomes a beautiful thing to be enjoyed and admired rather then a dangerous threat to the security and stability of our lives.
An example would be how I support outlawing a lot of harmful types of pornography like violent, extreme, and fetishistic porn but I do not support banning all erotic material entirely. The reason is simple, if you ban all pornography, then all porn, including the violent, extreme, and fetishistic porn, becomes an equal part of the black market. The black market will have violent torture porn, pedophilia, and bestiality side by side with a topless woman showing her boobs.
If you keep the photo of the girl's boobs legal, however, but ban the violent torture porn, the child porn, and the bestiality porn, then only those types of pornography become black market material whereas pornography that appeals to much healthier and more natural sexual interest absorbs the vast majority of the demand for pornographic material. This means it is easy to find a photo of a girl's boobs but it becomes difficult to find porn containing bestiality or violent/rough sex and people have to risk being arrested and going to prison in order to obtain that kind of stuff.
Again, control and direct the river, dam the portions that threaten to flood your home, but do not attempt to stop the river. Trying to stop the river will guarantee that your home is flooded.
This was all very well stated Outcast9428, I agree with everything you said. You can't ban prostitution without serious ramifications (just look at the United States for example). Your right, sexuality is like a river, trying to stop it is the most idiotic thing anyone can do.
I was in Germany a few months ago and prostitution is legal, widespread (they are allowed to advertise in newspapers, magazines and billboards) and it's widely accepted by the German people. I did visit a brothel which had an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, it also had an all you can eat buffet, a gym with exercise machines and free weights, a sauna, showers and a whirlpool. There was at least 50 girls there when I went (on a Sunday afternoon) It's called Artemis go to their website the place is awesome! I also hired an escort with does the GFE experience (Girl Friend Experience). We went out on three dates, had dinner together, spent 9 hours together on one day, 4 hours another day and 5 hours another day.
She drove me around the city in her car (and didn't ask for any gas money or money for parking). She showed me all the historical sights in Berlin frequently stopped to park and we walked around a lot and I took a lot of pictures. We also went on a boat ride down the Spree river which runs right through the heart of Berlin which was awesome. She only charged me 115 Euros an hour she was supposed to charge me 150 Euros an hour but she said she really enjoyed my company. We were together a total of 18 hours over three days and yes we had sex at the end of all of our dates. We need to have something like this in the US, who knows, maybe it will become legalized some day in the future.