Should Prostitution Be Legalized?

[minionofmidas]

No - they're not usually literally smuggled over the border, but overstaying tourist visas, seasonal work permits (in a different industry) etc.
And yes, being in the country illegally (and not paying their taxes) and thus having reason to fear the police is the source of pimp* power over here. Along with their quite cozy relationships with the police, of course.

*Read: Brothel operator/manager. Not the whores' "boyfriends", who're usually referred to by the same term, and whose role in the system appears to be to curb the worst of the operators' abuses, actually. Pretty strange subculture.

[minionofmidas]

You know I meant immigration enforcement in general.

In that case you clearly didn't think very far. Read my post again, all of it this time.

[minionofmidas]

Then where do you get the notion that the police might somehow become part of the solution from?

New post etc

Alright I take that back pre-emptively, just ignore me. Actually forget it, I quit. See all of you whenever.

Uh, what? Don't. (I don't want to ignore you. I do that only with the really dumb arguments. Like, say, anything Libertas says.)

[minionofmidas]

Yes. Partly on the grounds rarely mentioned that it would help women re-access into 'the system' and help them find more suitable forms of employment (the first person to say, yes I suspect it will be Opebo, that most women choose to prostitution is going to get a very large internet boot in the face).

Most women working in the industry did choose to.
Whether they would have if they'd had a clearer view of the working conditions is a different matter entirely.

And most do get out again reasonably quickly. Without help from the Government.
I am, of course, once again talking only of conditions in brothels in Western Europe. That's the part I'm knowledgeable about.

One other angle needs to be mentioned - one other reason why the industry prefers the current state of affairs to anything that could be called normalcy.
Normalcy would involve paying taxes.

[minionofmidas]

Well, I see prostitution as a form of oppression of women, reducing them to a state of merchandise. I however think that the anti-prostitution law shouldn't focus on prostitutes, but rather on procurers.

Dude, everyone is reduced to the state of merchandise in capitalism.  You're just a prude to focus on the sexual aspect.

I'm just coherent with my other political views.

Really?  You want to ban all forms of employment?

Who doesn't?