More complex than legalization of all drugs, which you seem to support?
Yes, much more complex. Drugs are a simple matter to legalize; educate children about the real risks of drugs, place taxes on the sale of those drugs earmarked to offsetting average medical costs per capita incurred by users of those drugs, and it's done. Prostitutuon is vastly different in that the reality of the sex trade is one in which the part and parcel is often direct slavery, and worse still, the slavery is generally tied to the sacrifice of the slave's ability to enjoy the function of their genitals. It's a vastly sticky issue, largely because the demand generally vastly outstrips the supply, and since the system of supply hinges most often on desperation rather than choice, it is too problematic at this point to allow the vast bulk of the current infrastructure of the sex trade to remain.
largely because while I think it CAN be ethical, the current organization of the sex industry is hopelessly terrible, as is the abomination which is neo-victorian sexual mores.
The reason being is that it is illegal and stigmatized. Also, during actual Victorian times sex work was at least legal in much of US. I would call it "neo-Puritan" rather than "neo-Victorian".
at any rate, it doesn't matter what it is called, merely that it is a result of a toxic culture, and the problems associated with regulating a business which is perhaps hopelessly tied to desperation and thus slavery. It is FAR less trivial than drug policy reform.
I would fully support full legalization IFF we could develop a system of oversight and support which would enable people doing the work to receive all the profit,
Why? Person doing the work should receive all the profit iff they are in the business for themselves. But if they are part of a brothel or agency then they by necessity should not receive all the profit. It's like any other profession. If a plumber works for a plumbing company he does not receive all the profit either. So why should sex work be treated differently? Of course, it should be up to the individual sex workers to decide whether to work for themselves or not.
Because as previously mentioned, prostitution is largely a matter of desperation rather than free choice. Because it scrapes the barest edge of consent, there needs to be oversight which restricts the share of money made by functionaries of the business. There are, as previously mentioned, nontrivial problems surrounding sex trade that are not present in the non-sex drug trade.
however I am hopeful of a near future where questions of the ethics of sex work are sidestepped by clever applications of science and engineering.
Do you mean sex bots? Like with our dependence on oil, I think you hopelessly lack the idea of the time scales necessary.
No. I do not mean sex bots necessarily. As it is, your understanding of the pace of technological advance is quite lacking. At any rate, there are a myriad of directions in which the solution could go that I am aware of currently, and I am sure my own list of potential solutions is far from exhaustive, everything from chemical to virtual, Although the easiest solution generally tends to be the one you already have
at hand.
At any rate, I'm done with this prostitution red herring; prostitution is non-trivial to solve. Drug use is fairly straightforward. As to all the displaced judges, police officers, customs officials, and other 'drug warriors' they can suck a dick and get a real job. Perhaps sucking dicks, if we can iron out the kinks in the sex trade. Or maybe building solar plants.
