It’s very misleading to compare the psychological effects of the activity of prostitution with those of software programming.
If a software programmer get’s drugged an put under pressure so that he can’t think clearly anymore he won’t be able to do his job. On the other hand there’s a market for prostitutes that do whatever the client wants them to do and who take part in drug orgies.
Apart from drugs there are strong psychological forces involved in sex that simply don’t exist in software programming.
You seem to focus on details and ignore the main point, which was:
If there is a “tradition” of (1) forcing people to do (2) illegal stuff, one does not remove the tradition by merely declaring the stuff legal. One also has to make extra steps to ensure that all participants are there voluntarily. Otherwise the already established “infrastructure” for forcing people to do stuff will remain there.
My Googling suggests that in Vienna where prostiutes have to be registered around half of the registered prostiutes are victims of human trafficing.
The policy of registration which as of the beginning of this months also entered German law, doesn’t seem to result in an elimination of prostitution that shouldn’t be there.
I think your arguments also rests on the fact that there are programmers who actually want by their own volition to do the programming jobs that customers demand.
On the other hand there are prostitution services that are demanded by customers that very few woman actually want to do.
It’s very misleading to compare the psychological effects of the activity of prostitution with those of software programming.
If a software programmer get’s drugged an put under pressure so that he can’t think clearly anymore he won’t be able to do his job. On the other hand there’s a market for prostitutes that do whatever the client wants them to do and who take part in drug orgies.
Apart from drugs there are strong psychological forces involved in sex that simply don’t exist in software programming.
You seem to focus on details and ignore the main point, which was:
If there is a “tradition” of (1) forcing people to do (2) illegal stuff, one does not remove the tradition by merely declaring the stuff legal. One also has to make extra steps to ensure that all participants are there voluntarily. Otherwise the already established “infrastructure” for forcing people to do stuff will remain there.
My Googling suggests that in Vienna where prostiutes have to be registered around half of the registered prostiutes are victims of human trafficing.
The policy of registration which as of the beginning of this months also entered German law, doesn’t seem to result in an elimination of prostitution that shouldn’t be there.
I think your arguments also rests on the fact that there are programmers who actually want by their own volition to do the programming jobs that customers demand. On the other hand there are prostitution services that are demanded by customers that very few woman actually want to do.