Friday,
June 06, 2008
Italians Favor Reopening Brothels - Repealing
1958 "Merlin Law"
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ANNOTICO Report
Sex has
become overwhelming accepted as a Power that can not be ignored, and must
be reckoned with. The
I'm
having difficulty understanding what the "morality issue" is if the
male is Single, in this day and age when 13year olds consider giving "oral
sex" no big deal.
I
also wonder particularly what the married women would say. It seems that
"prostitutes" provide some services wives are reluctant to, and that
during certain times the woman is tired, or isn't in "the mood",
and that later in their life the woman's libido diminishes, and she would
be relieved to not have to feel obligated to perform, or guilty for not
performing certain "marital commitment".
I
find outlawing prostitution as unreasonable as prohibition of liquor. Restrict
it YES. Outlaw it NO
Italians Favor Reopening Brothels
UPI-Universal
Press International
June
4, 2008
Italians
overwhelmingly support reopening brothels as a means of getting prostitutes off
the streets according to a new poll.
Some 85 percent of Italians favor repealing a 1958 law which closed brothels,
with 47 percent believing it would clean up the streets and another 38 percent
in favor because it would protect prostitutes from exploitation and violence,
according to the survey taken for the Donna Moderna
magazine.
Only 11 percent of Italians were against repealing the so-called Merlin Law
because they believed it would be an incentive for people to engage in
prostitution, while 4 percent viewed the reopening of brothels -- which is the
focus of an ongoing referendum initiative led by right wing politician Daniela Santanche -- as an "immoral act."
A recent study said there are some 100,000 prostitutes in
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