LA Is Trying to Fix Its Prostitution Problem by Banning Right Turns at Night

Post by mberning » Sun, Nov 04, 2018, 12:25 PM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #41

googlryas wrote: post #29

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Not only are right turns safe, but they are safer than left turns, because the A column can more easily block pedestrians crossing a street parallel to the cars motion before the turn. And so a single right turn is safer than a single left turn, and this proposed law is going to make people perhaps do 3x as many left turns as they would have right turns.

What's an 'A column' on a traffic junction? And why would pedestrians be crossing if the traffic is moving?

Post by mattmanser » Sun, Nov 04, 2018, 12:32 PM UTC

Claudus wrote: post #68

coldtea wrote: post #61

First, they should ask: Is there a prostitution problem? And what is the prostitution problem? Is it the problem that prostitution is sinful? Then they could perhaps finally come to the 21st century, and the problem is solved by itself. Is the problem that prostitution is illegal? That's a self imposed problem, they can just change the law (like other countries and some states/counties have). Is the problem that soci…

It seems to me, that legalizing prostitution would be at the top of the issues list for feminism. Most of the arguments made in support of legal abortion could also be made for legal prostitution. Furthermore, there is a fair amount of research indicating that legal prostitution reduces occurances of rape. Although I suppose it would increase “liquidity” in the market, and reduce the value of sex to a certain degree.

Post by jimnotgym » Sun, Nov 04, 2018, 12:44 PM UTC

rifung wrote: post #15

swampthinker wrote: post #9

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On mobile so I'll having trouble finding a source, but studies have unfortunately found that countries with legalized prostitution generally have higher trafficking rates.

Here you go: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-... "Countries with legalized prostitution are associated with higher human trafficking inflows than countries where prostitution is prohibited. The scale effect of legalizing prostitution, i.e. expansion of the market, outweighs the substitution effect, where legal sex workers are favored over illegal workers. On average, countries with legaliz…

Post by th01www » Sun, Nov 04, 2018, 12:55 PM UTC

cespul wrote: post #35

tomc1985 wrote: post #25

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And for every one of those reports there is another of sex workers who find it empowering, profitable, and maybe even fun

Surely that ratio is much higher than 1:1. The amount of camgirls having "fun" and independently successful escorts has to be relatively small compared to the amount of average sex workers, many of whom didn't exactly choose that life and don't find it to be very "empowering".

Post by lapnitnelav » Sun, Nov 04, 2018, 1:11 PM UTC