All these middle aged women who have no skills due to raising children would be able to support themselves by giving old men handjobs.
Keeping prostitution illegal helps save marriages . also has the added benefit of making it harder for the husband to cheat on payday.
I don’t really agree or disagree, but think the argument is completely pointless.
Typically things are made legal or illegal based on “societal harm”. What is the value in keeping around marriages that would be lost if prostitution were legal? There are many arguments that could be made for or against legalizing prostitution, but “marriage rate” seems irrelevant.
So that children grow up with their parents together.
You’re assuming the married people have kids, and that the kids would be better off if their parents stayed together. It’s perfectly plausible that legalization would prevent these fragile marriages and then in turn raise the rate of children raised with both parents.
I’m arguing specifically that middle aged women can always give handjobs if it were legal. It’s doesn’t take any skill to slide your hand up and down on a dick. Preventing marriages from originally forming is not the argument. It’s for already established marriages with children.
It’s no secret that marriages stay together our of necessity. Rich people always get divorced. we could argue whether it’s good or bad to have that divorce but i’m not making that argument. I’m arguing legalizing it will increase divorces.
You can ignore the back side of a coin, but it doesn’t make it go away.
You’re speculating that it will increase divorces, and that it’s a bad thing, but not bringing any facts to the table.
Prostitution is legal in Germany but they have a very similar divorce rate to the U.S.
rates in germany - rates in US
Nevada has traditionally had a much higher divorce rate than the rest of the US, but in recent years it has come down to below that of more traditionally conservative states. This seems to suggest there is more to the issue than you’re speculating. divorce rates by state
Because Germany and the US have different cultures you would have to show that before prostitution was legal the divorce rate did not change after is was legal and within the same demographics.
for example religious Muslims are probably less likely to participate in prostitution. So if there was a influx of Muslim immigrants in Germany you would have to take that into account.
The divorce rate has in fact increased in Germany since prostitution became legal in 2002. So Germany’s data actually supports my theory and not yours. Even without taking into account demographic differences which would surely make it support my claim even more so.
Where do you see this? Both the divorce rate per capita and the the divorce rate per marriage has gone down dramatically since 2002… It was over 50% then and is around 39% now.
EDIT: but there is some merit to changing demographics. we would need a study that accounts for that.