Re: Sex, drugs, and libertarianism

[Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>]

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                          SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,

On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Steve Edwards wrote:

> I was walking back from the convenience store the other day, when I began
> talking to a young lady.  She offered to give me a blow job for $2.  I don't
> patronize prostitutes, less from moral concerns, than from concerns for my
> health and safety.  Nonetheless, $2 for a blow job says to me that the
> market for sex acts has hit rock bottom.  Forthrightly, she told me she
> wanted the money for crack, which has also become very cheap here.
> 
> It has been said many times in this forum that prostitution and drugs are
> victimless crimes.  Is this really so?  Although I am generally in concert
> with libertarian views, I would say that the young lady I talked to was
> definitely a victim...

Yes, the young lady is a victim, but not of prostitution or
drugs.  I leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine of
whom the young lady is a victim.


 S a n d y

P.S.	Now where is it, EXACTLY, that these $2 blow jobs
	are being offered? 

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