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This 8 page paper examines the crime of prostitution and whether or not it is a victimless crime. Devlin and Mill's positions are examined in respect to how the law should treat prostitution. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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all sorts of "prostitution" takes place in society and has a legal stamp of approval anyway. There are rules for "strip clubs" for instance, but nevertheless, even if bodily fluids
are not exchanged, sex is provided for a price. Lap dances are not cheap and while they may be legal, many do not think that they are moral. Similar to
prostitution, one has to wonder why one thing is legal and the other is not. It seems that as far as victimless crimes go, there are lines in the sand.
For prostitution, the specific crime is illegal. One cannot have sex for money. Yet, one can go on a date, have dinner and feel obligated to provide sex at
the end of the evening because the man had paid for a steak dinner. It may not be a true exchange, but it is similar to prostitution if one
has that thought pattern. Similarly, when a twenty year old girl marries an eighty year old rich man, one has to wonder whether or not sex is exchanged for money.
While ideologically there seems to be a difference between taking hard cash for sexual intercourse and engaging in other questionable behavior, there are again those degrees where one is not
sure. There are indecency laws where performers have been arrested. They went too far sexually in the course of some performance, but that line is rather thin. How does one
know what is the right course of action in a moral society? Where should the line be drawn? Each particular nation seems to draw the line in different ways as
they perceive things in unique ways, dependent upon the culture. According to a student, legal moralist "Richard Devlin, believed that the law can legitimately be used to prohibit
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