San Fran's going too far...

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While I can understand the idea of keeping people safe from sex related crimes, its apparent that they were commiting a crime in the first place, i.e. prostitution.

So you really come back to the question does someone who is in the act of committing a crime deserve protection from crimes committed on them?

I say no. To me you throw away all protections of the law when you chose to relieve yourself of those same laws. Its kinda like asking for US constitutional protection after you have stated you are not an American anymore. It just doesn't make sense.

Everyone has choices in life. Very few people are living in conditions that they did not create. A prostitute 99% of the time chose to have the life of a prostitute, which is without question dangerous and illegal in the US, for just that reason. Its highly dangerous to all parties.

Now, should prostitution be illegal? Beyond the religious moral ideas of it, is it really bad for society and thus needs to be deemed illegal? I don't think so. Should it be regulated to try to assure the best practices and safeguards? Of course. But if two consenting adults decide to have sex, what's the difference if money is exchanged? After all, you could argue that a typical dating scene is just a form of prostitution. Most of the time men are still spending money in the hopes of getting action. The only difference is with a prostitute you know exactly what you are getting. Granted, you have the smaller percentage of time when love is actually involved, but I would say that is far smaller of an occurrence than most of you would like to think.

I say let them. But, it must be heavily regulated similar to most services that deal with bodily fluids.