The Sex Work Debate and how to Settle it in Defense of Liberty

Well, well, well!

What have I been saying since 2010 - 2011 when I first became a Pro-Defense, Pro-West libertarian? I have been saying that legislating morality creates an epic fail of a society. And in the debate over voluntary prostitution versus coerced prostitution, I am no different. Here is my case for legalizing voluntary sex work. Keyword across this post shall be 'voluntary'.

Exhibit A; Legislating Morality Fails Western culture epically

Frankly, as far as I know about Western countries, the values they all share are the value of using reason, scientific method and a little something called empiricism to arrive at conclusions. Almost every sex work conclusion I see a Western arguer arrive at using these three presets is a Pro-legalization conclusion. However, I must make some comparisons before anyone passes judgement on my case maker here.

Exhibit B; We already tried legislating lifestyle morals. Twice.

Okay, so it is now comparison time! Back in the 1920's America tried a Prohibitionist war on alcohol, and to make it happen we changed the constitution to allow it to happen. Then we changed the constitution again to forfeit the alcohol war. Richard Nixon in the 1970's launched this War on Cannabis, as I call it based on which recreational drug is the most targeted. The constitution was never amended for that, which means America's current cannabis policy is illegal! Plus it is immoral because it puts more people in jail for victimless crimes aka Non-crimes than Europe jails for violent and/or property crimes.

Therefore, when it comes to prostitution, our prohibitionist war against women, which is really what the prohibitionist ban of sex work is, never had a constitutional amendment made for it. That makes America's prostitution policy an illegal policy. More relevantly, it is immoral because we are basically imposing real victimization onto women twice! Once with coercive Pimps as the perp, Again with the local police department as the perp. Which reminds me....

Exhibit C; Voluntary Versus Coerced

People who use force and coercion to push women into sex work should absolutely be jailed for life, in a very hostile prison, I say.

But on the other hand, when it comes to women voluntarily choosing to sell their bodies and charging whatever they want for it, that means almost nothing to me. It just means, to me, the event of someone choosing to charge money for an adults-only form of labor.

So, if you want legit reform of American and other Western Country sex-work policy, then we need to both legalize voluntary prostitution and increase harshness of penalties for coercive pimping.

Closing Remarks

Guys & gals, I am really just doing this in reply to a Dave Rubin video that touched very little on this subject matter despite having this topic in the video title. Thanks for reading this;

~Kyle S. Perkins