I think the major divide within the rw populist ranks on this issue is how much of it should be legal

Obviously if you have a deviant sexuality that's a mental issue, can't arrest you for thought crime, but people can absolutely be punished for what they do and it would deter others from following suit

I'd allow most vices and immoral behaviors, but I'd keep them contained to physical places that are out of the way and licensed

I think we should have some mercy on those who have such mental issues and want help. We should treat them like conventional patients with a physical ailment and simply do whatever we can to help so they can be rid of it

So brothels where people can buy what they like and use it, or whatever

I would make sure brothels would be completely illegal

How is this trad?

There's always been brothels

even in the middle ages

and they were legal, but clearly marked out

The idea is that you steal the underground market by licensing a select number of higher class establishments

when I say trad I don't mean "old" I mean following the ideals of traditional civ

Well let me explain here

I'll die before a state under my watch approves of prostitution

You don't get it

(not that I'll ever have one)

Sometimes to have less prostitution, you have to have a small amount that's legal and controlled

that way you can steal the market from the underground people

I reject this notion

Well I'll explain it

you can always arrest the underground people

incentives work

If you ban it completely, it'll happen under your nose and you won't be able to control it. You don't get to control where it is or who gets to it.

this idea hearkens back to libertarians claiming that banning drugs increases drug use which is demonstrably false

If you permit some out of the way establishments to operate, with licenses and regulation, people can do their things out of the way and not expose kids to it.

when you ban something and arrest people for using it, people dont do it as much funny that

And you'll actually have less

Some things are worth banning, and other things aren't worth it.

When we banned liquor that didn't work

banning prostitution didn't work

I want less prostitution

porn was banned in the US for a long time. Tell me do you really think we have less of it now that its legal?

banning liquor was dumb, it has been a staple of civilization

So if you can get less prostitution, and control the remainder why not do that?

meanwhile apparently Denver is now the capital of stoners

why not legalize murder and theft?

Instead of banning it for a point

Because prostitution is different from murder and theft

It's sex for cash. It's victimless crime. It's not healthy for society, but if you can control it and limit it to out of the way establishments, all the better

look incentives work. If you want less prostitution punish those involved in it

a pro prostitution traditionalist, I've seen it all