Sex Matters

Legalise Prostitution
Recognising the fact that unless we are lucky enough to do a job that we would equally and enthusiastically do for nothing, then we all prostitute ourselves to some extent. Prostitutes provide a service in response to a demand and if it is what they want to do and it is affecting no one else, they should have the right, and be allowed, to do so. Some people are lucky enough to be able to say they are doing a job that they would also do for nothing if they were not being paid. Most of us work purely and simply for the money, providing a service to society, in one form or another, simply because we have to in order to earn money to survive. If people want to sell a sexual service in preference to cleaning lavatories etc, because the hours are less and the money is better, and they have enthusiastic customers, why should they not? We have all felt at one time or another that it is about time that people in this world started minding their own business and stopped poking their noses into other people's. The view of an ex-policeman, who has had years of experience in and around London and has seen the more sordid side of the way women are sometimes treated by their pimps, is that the government should allow the existence of licensed brothels, in a similar way that other more forward thinking countries do already. This way the women involved can be looked after and have their health checked on a regular basis and be safe from the abuse of such unscrupulous entities. It is also true to say that there should be no problem with women working independently from their home if that is what they wish to do. However, whatever way it goes, the bottom line is still the same, client or supplier, there is no freedom without the facility for an individual to choose for them self.

Price Of A Condom?
There has recently been an increase of about 20% in aids cases. We should be doing everything possible to encourage the use of condoms, not just because they help prevent unwanted pregnancy and all of the trauma that goes with it, but also because they also help to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease and indeed, all of the trauma that goes with that. Everytime someone catches something untoward, or becomes pregnant unitentionally, to say nothing of the heartache that it causes, it is also a drain on Health Service resources and, in the case of single mums, often a big drain on the benefit system. Bearing these factors in mind, it may be considered a lot less expensive all round, both emotionally and financially, to have just given the person concerned free contraception rather than finance the results of the alternative outcome. There has been been a call to abolish VAT on condoms so as to make them more affordable pointing out that they are significantly cheaper in other European countries than in this one. No surprise there then! This, in fact, is the very least we could do.