garett

First outbreak in over 5 years is pretty good I'd say. Shit happens.

The only safe solution is abstinence. Shut down the industry all together if you want to prevent AIDS .. and tell "normal" people they can't have sex too.

If you consider the effectiveness of condoms and then compare it with the effectiveness of testing they're probably about the same. Either way something can slip through the radar. I bet you anything that if we had adopted a condom rule, instead of testing, an outbreak would have still occured eventually and then people would be crying out for testing. Condoms may have slowed the spread .. but if we were relying on condoms instead of testing perhaps the outbreak would have slowed but been larger considering no one would have known at first.

To get on topic it doesn't really matter unless you mean "prostitute" in a negative context. I don't see why prostitution is illegal. The government is arleady involved with enough of our lives as it is .. they don't need to be involved in our sex life. If people want to pay for sex or accept money for sex it should be their right. I don't see any basis what-so-ever for criminalizing prostitution.

And that's the only difference I see between the two. One is legal, one is not. So people naturally attack the illegal act and then go on their marry way and light up a joint or drive without a steat belt or jaywalk etc. All stupid laws that many "respectable" people break.

Anyway it's just a label. People in both professions deserve respect either way IMO.

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