Uh, Digger? IIRC Neveda has had legal brothels for years.

I'd MUCH rather see legal brothels where health codes are enforced.

well sure, but that was YEARS ago. I haven't seen the downfall of our health care system being because Nevada legalized prostitution. You are of course right in regards to the health concerns.

My argument for legalized prostitution is that it all comes down to a moral argument in the end for having it illegal. In general moral means "religious reasons" which brings it full circle to the point that having a law against it is a separation of church (or in this case religion) and state issue.

As a homeowner in a transitional part of town, I was none too happy to find out our new neighbor is a prostitute. Before you consider me a religious zealot (I don't have a religion), consider my argument. Before this woman came to our block, we were friendly with all the neighbors and we all spent time in our yards hanging out and keeping up with one another.

Now our neighbors don't send their kids outside because there are nearly hourly drug deals in front of this woman's house. Also, she's apparently not good enough at her trade to afford a telephone. If the constant screaming, fighting, beating on the door, calling the cops and drug-dealing ended, I could get over the fact that a prostitute is across the street. I don't care what she does in there. The cops say there is nothing they can do. Is that why they have been to her house nearly 30 times since september!!

If you think Rhode Island "has grown a brain," you might want to visit before cementing that opinion.

As for prostitution, if it's legal, then she should be paying taxes and keeping the peace like the rest of us. There is no red light district for her to call home, so we are victims of her culture with no rights to assert our previous way of life.

Well she's a criminal in other ways and obviously trashy. Even non-prostitutes act like that in neighborhoods. I've had to deal with it in the past with people who weren't prostitutes.

I feel for you, but I really don't see how her prostitution alone is the problem. Obviously drugs and/or alcohol are the real issue.

You should read the translation from Russian of Mikhail Armalinsky's essay on prostitution "A She-Savior" that was published in Moscow edition of his Selected Works http://www.mipco.com/english/introVozn.html
I will be happy to send you the text as attachment or here is the
link: http://www.mipco.com/english/SheSavior.html
The translation is made by the prominent Slavic scholar Dr. Brian Baer.

The main idea of the essay "A She-Savior" is that the legalization of prostitution must be based on a return of its divine, sacred character, so that prostitution will be considered the most honorable profession, the one closest to God, the holiest.

Here are the chapters:

A Short History of Prostitution
A Comprehensive Definition of the Prostitute
Why Young Men Need Prostitutes
Why the Lonely Need Prostitutes
Why Married Men Need Prostitutes
Why the Poor Need Prostitutes
Why Old Men Need Prostitutes
Why the Sick and Deformed Need Prostitutes
Why Every Man Needs a Prostitute
The Prostitute and the "Proper" Woman
The Causes and Incentives of Prostitution
Hatred of Prostitutes
The Future of Prostitution

SOUNDZ LIKE I NEED TO TAKE A TRIP TO R.I TO INVESTIGATE THIS LOOPHOLE...........

Check out this indie documentary on Asian massage parlors in RI where prostitution is legal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3nv3sSc-BY

I think prostitution should be legal indoors only. I do not think it should be in brothels either! I do not think any one should be able to make money off of a prostitutes body except the prostitute her self. The brothel it's self becomes an other place of oppression....with to many rules. They will wake you up in the middle of the night to service a man, take you away from your family for weeks on end. You can not leave the brothels for weeks once you get there. It is so unorthedoxed you can not go to school or live a normal life. The brothel becomes your pimp. The last thing these girls need is some one else telling them what to do and using them. I do think they should be responsible for there taxes, and keep it in doors and submit health testing...no more then every six months.....thanks for letting me post.

I cant think !

I'm a Rhode Island resident, and I live near several Asian Massage Parlors. I can honestly say that they're as quiet and non-threatening as any other business. The only arguments I hear, and the only noise that occasionally bothers me come from the bars. The massage parlors are good neighbors as far as I'm concerned.

To the poster who said things were great where they are until the prostitute moved in, that sounds like a problem you could have with anyone (I've had neighbors like that), it's not prostitution itself that's messing up your neighborhood, it's trashy people.

Rhode Island made prostitution illegal in 2009.

That's despite the fact that sex workers testified that they were not forced into it and were doing it by choice.

Basically they are telling women, as long as you give it away for free that's fine.