all of this is SO completely sickening. can't anything be done about these issues in other countries? I mean, it's hard to sit here discussing it and not being able to actually do anything about it....

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the most horrible thing hapened in Austria in a monastery! where the monks were filming themselves having sex with children! mostley young guys!

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Oh My God! That's disgusting. I just can't see why people would do such a thing. Oh man...I think I'm gonna throw-up....

the most horrible thing hapened in Austria in a monastery! where the monks were filming themselves having sex with children! mostley young guys!

Were you not reading the satistics?? I'm sorry but India doesn't have burger places willing to hire people like some coutnries do. And excuse me but i bet you would sell your body instead of starve to death. You cant' say anyting about these people, you dont' know them and you have never been in their situation. I have so shocked that you sould say such things about people who just want to live naothe rdya.

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Originally posted by jakeroxmysox15:

I think it's pathetic that some people say that they HAVE to prostitute just to get money. Like someone else said, there are many other ways to make mooney, like flipping burgers or yard work, or whatever. Anything is better than selling yourself to strangers on the street. Even if I was starving to deathand had NO ONE to help me, I would never, ever sell my body. And as for Kiddi porn, that is just disgusting and permently damaging the poor, innocent children of these horrific ages.No one deserves that kind of degrading, especially if it is unwillinglytaken. what the hell is our world coming to? We will eventually destroy ourselves!

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that's sounds so easy when you're not 15 and homeless in chicago or a 13-year-old girl from some hill tribe in thailand who was promised a good job working as a waitress or something like that but ended up being sold to a brothel.

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Child prostitution is wrong, and there is no way around that. The real issue is how we can help nations like India. We can't just impose our morals on them, for fear of coming off as fascist nutjobs rather than concerned Americans. But I suspect this really isn't a moral issue anyway: most of these girls are doing it because they believe it will help them financially, and because they have nothing else to turn to. The only way we can help is by trying to put India and Thailand's citizens on more secure economic ground, but unfortunately, we can't even seem to accomplish that in the good old U.S. of A.

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exactly. they need the money, which is why i think theyre prostitues.

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On to the other issues, concerning us right here in America: I think that pornography and prostitution should be legal if you are at least 18. As bauhaus pointed out, different people have very different opinions when it comes to such matters as dignity and pride. If the porn stars/prostitutes honestly know what they're getting into and are getting paid for it, it is their decision to do what they do.

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in the Ukraine, girls as young as 9 become prostitues, and the evil thing is, sometimes the men dont even pay them.

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I'm not naive, though; I understand perfectly well that as long as unregulated prostitution is legal, women of all ages will be getting exploited, conned and duped left and right. The answer, in my opinion, would be a Prostitution Union. Prostitutes would be "registered", and anyone seeking to purchase their services would need to at least prove they had never been in jail and were in good health. I understand this would be a huge beaurocratic hassle, but I think the end result would be well worth it.

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thats the system (or its a very similar one, im not sure) they have in Holland

Child prostitution is wrong, and there is no way around that. The real issue is how we can help nations like India. We can't just impose our morals on them, for fear of coming off as fascist nutjobs rather than concerned Americans. But I suspect this really isn't a moral issue anyway: most of these girls are doing it because they believe it will help them financially, and because they have nothing else to turn to. The only way we can help is by trying to put India and Thailand's citizens on more secure economic ground, but unfortunately, we can't even seem to accomplish that in the good old U.S. of A.

On to the other issues, concerning us right here in America: I think that pornography and prostitution should be legal if you are at least 18. As bauhaus pointed out, different people have very different opinions when it comes to such matters as dignity and pride. If the porn stars/prostitutes honestly know what they're getting into and are getting paid for it, it is their decision to do what they do.

I'm not naive, though; I understand perfectly well that as long as unregulated prostitution is legal, women of all ages will be getting exploited, conned and duped left and right. The answer, in my opinion, would be a Prostitution Union. Prostitutes would be "registered", and anyone seeking to purchase their services would need to at least prove they had never been in jail and were in good health. I understand this would be a huge beaurocratic hassle, but I think the end result would be well worth it.

I think it's pathetic that some people say that they HAVE to prostitute just to get money. Like someone else said, there are many other ways to make mooney, like flipping burgers or yard work, or whatever. Anything is better than selling yourself to strangers on the street. Even if I was starving to deathand had NO ONE to help me, I would never, ever sell my body. And as for Kiddi porn, that is just disgusting and permently damaging the poor, innocent children of these horrific ages.No one deserves that kind of degrading, especially if it is unwillinglytaken. what the hell is our world coming to? We will eventually destroy ourselves!

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WHAT!!! It is a health issue, a safety issue, a freedom issue, NOT a free speech issue.

ALL PROSTITUTING PEDOFILES BELONG IN JAIL!!!!

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Wow, morbidsmileme...you have pretty strong feelings about this issue don't you? I'm glad. More people need to realize that we need to protect our children from this(by that I mean all children; I don't have any of my own). We can't just be okay with the fact that a perverted adult is having sex with a child.

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You ******* sheep. There is nothing wrong with young people in pornography and prostitution should not be illegal. Young people are not stupid, you have just been hypnotized by American media, Christianity, and lies.

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Will you shut the **** up!!! You dont get it, don't you. Young girls shouldn't be having sex in the 1st place, let alone having it with much older men to satisfy their most pathetic desires!!

Here's what I say about the facts Youth Voice gave:

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come from poor families with many children

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So, you could work on a farm or do some other kind of safer work after school to help support your family

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are illiterate

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Exactly... they need to go to school, NOT be having sex.. they benefit their families even more eventually that way

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serve between two and seven clients every day

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Having sex 7 times a day!!! That is wrong!!!

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cannot dispose freely over the money they earn

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It's for their families' food and living expenses... right???

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have venereal diseases and are very likely soon to get AIDS

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What kind of parents would allow their children to DIE from a deadly disease??

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Some claim the viewing and owning of child pornography is simply a free speech issue.

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WHAT!!! It is a health issue, a safety issue, a freedom issue, NOT a free speech issue.

ALL PROSTITUTING PEDOFILES BELONG IN JAIL!!!!

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You ******* sheep. There is nothing wrong with young people in pornography and prostitution should not be illegal. Young people are not stupid, you have just been hypnotized by American media, Christianity, and lies.

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You are so sad, I feel bad for you. I mean, really, I do.

child prostitution is wrong but prostitution for women over 21 should be legal then tha girls would be monitered and if they got an STD they'd be sacked i think legalized prostitution in tha US would lower tha STD and HIV rate

One thing that needs to be done, if it has not already been done, is to have prostitution declared to be slavery.

I mean, I called the FBI once to report a conversation I overheard about 2 runaway kids being held in chains as prostitutes. The FBI told me they would have to prove they were kidnapped and that they were taken over state lines.

Now, come on. What I reported was slavery, plain simple and clear as crystle.

Most of these kids need the money and I was watching this CBS thing and people from America were going to Cambodia to have sex with young girls, as young as age 8. It was horrifying how these girls would ask the cameraman to have oral sex. I think more people are turning to child prostitutes because they think they are less susceptible to STDs and maybe the fact that they're young. But poverty, cultural stigmas and customs are at the root of all this.

Some people put a price on their dignity others dont. leave them alone, not everyone believes in your values.

Hitler

now that I think of it though, you just probably need attention and named yourself Hitler so that people will hate you.

Hitler

you must have a very bad life, so i feel bad for you.

ahhhhhhh, forget it Im going to be honest.... **** yourself!!!!!!!!

you gotta be very poor, desperate, or feel bad about yourself to degrade yourself in to any porn market. sexuality/sensuality isnt wrong, but being a porn star is highly laughable.

same

I do support the legalization of prostitution among adults (people who are eighteen or over). Whileb I don't think a fifteen year old is a child, I would agree that they are far too young to be involved in the sexual marketing. I agree that child pornography is definitly wrong, though I do kind of have a little battle over whether viewing it is wrong. On the one hand, by viewing it one is not explicidly hurting a child and it does sort of fall under freedom of speech, on the other it's viewing harm of a child and benifiting an orginization or person that does harm children for money.

There msut be some place we could volenteer to help these poor kids....