NationStates Jolt Archive

Despite the fact that UN resolution 48 legalized prostitution, the consequences for a resolution like this weren't really considered. Rampant prostitution can be a health issue, helping to spread sexually transmitted diseases.

Rather than attempt to repeal that act, I ask that you support my proposal: that prostitution is regulated in order to further crack down on the spread of STDs (AIDS, syphilis, etc.). It entails issuing licenses for legalized prostitution after blood tests have been made, and enforcing that prostitution is practiced only with a valid license. This is not an infringement on human rights, but rather an intelligent way to give people the freedoms they are entitled to without taking public health risks.

You can find it in the proposals section.

First of all, please quote a proposal you're making. This makes discussion of it easier.

Second, without having seen your proposal, we would like to state that licencing prostitutes is not an option for us. Spreading of STDs is done in more ways than prostitutes. Therefor, we see more value in educational measures, and supplying perhaps special attention to prostitutes should they want or need it. For example, sales tax reduction on condoms.

But the main thing about STDs is knowledge. Know what you're doing. Know the consequences. Licences aren't tackling the cause of the problems, only the symptoms. For the cause, you need to educate people, and create awareness about the problem.

Sure, but we've got legislation also that gives free education. The point is that if prostitution is going to be legalized, it shouldn't be completely unrestricted. If people are being educated for free anyway and still being prostitutes, then there ought to be some kind of regulation.

Why should the UN bother with restrictions to prostitutes? Individual nations are capable to do something about this themselves, if that is necesary at all. And prostitutes can organize themselves as well.

The "free education" doesn't matter in this. "Education" is broader than just school. A government can finance commercials to promote safe sex, for example. Or subsidise organisations that promote awareness about safe sex. That's also education, but not the education covered by any UN resolution. That's okay, because nations can arrange this individually. There is no real need to regulate this on an international level. The same goes for prostitution.

By legalizing prostitution, the UN effectively made prostitution a normal job like any other, with the same rights and obligations. If a nation wants to restrict prostitution, let them do so. But that is not a UN issue. I fail to see why my nation should do this the same as your nation, for example. Our nation chooses an approach with as few restrictions as possible, and chooses to tackle problems like STDs with education, awareness campaigns, and investing in healthcare, instead of restricting individual freedom. There is no need for any UN involvement.

We have it on good intelligence that intelligence has nothing to do wi' prostitution.

give us a good ol' fashioned bimbo!

If you look at it, restricting prostition by either the UN or as an individual nation won't do you any good, because if people really want to shag each other that much, they'll find a way to illegally have prostitutes. I suggest that we do nothing, and when someone gets an STD, we laugh at them, and let them suffer from their own stupidity. Man, I really don't get why my nation isn't a Psychotic Dictatorship... I try hard enough to get it to be one...

The UN made prostitution legal.

Our Sultan put a tax on it. And a license. And manditory weekly health checkups for practitioners (paid for by the state). Part of the license included education on STDs - signs, prevention, treatment. It also included use of condoms and other devices.

Not being licensed was declared "unsafe". Not "illegal" but "unsafe". Clauses were inserted in health insurance that made contact with an unsafe sex practitioner grounds not to pay claims. Also life insurance. The presence of these clauses was made very public. Our Sultan passed a law insuring those clauses would be present, in plain english, and would be read to each and everyone purchasing a policy.

As such, there isn't any illegal prostitution as Vastiva's population is well aware of the health risks.

At the same time, prostitutes add to the tax base. They invest. They buy insurance. They have unions (oy, do they have unions!). They donate to political races, they have a voice. They help in the further suppression of criminal activity (wanna see what an attempt to control prostitutes who have the police and the law on their side looks like? I'll send you photos. Bring a barf bag).

Male and female prostitutes are present. They make wonderful informers.

The UN made it legal. Vastiva made it work for us.