[MojoNixon]

Old Dr Feelgood song goes :

If everybody is saying that
Love is free
How come they keep it
Under lock and key
When it comes to love
You've gotta shop around
On and off, the foreman sell it by the pound
Every kind of vice
Is only merchandise

When you're making love
Check your wallet every minute
Cause that little girl
Wants everything that's in it
Another thing with love
Apart from the money
You might get stung
If you're stealing honey
Every kind of vice
Is only merchandise

When you're feeling down
And you take it on the streets
Take your boys, you'll need them
It's gonna lift you off your feet
You really gonna fly
When you remember what I said
Moaning like a sleeper
And you'll wish that you were dead
Now it's lovin' or it's leave her
Or it's this or that
The man who's selling tickets
That's getting fat
Every kind of vice
Is only merchandise

[fuzzluvver69]

Yup, that's pretty much what I said above, except that it is in fact an illegal act in [B]all[B] circumstances, there are no exceptions. When the Doctors give their permission it is in fact a justification of that illegal act that will then result in no prosecution.

Under the current set up they'd be as well to just legalise the whole thing, as the current law has absolutely no effect.

[ChristmasNeeve]

I understand what you're saying, it may not technically be legal but it is really and that whole Pro choice, womans own body argument is always the argument for it as well, that was my point

[Shasown]

Originally Posted by Niamhxo

I understand what you're saying, it may not technically be legal but it is really and that whole Pro choice, womans own body argument is always the argument for it as well, that was my point

No it is a completely legal action if carried out within the time frames and for the reasons allowed.

http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content...tDocId=1181037

Its covered by the Abortion Act 1967 and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. The second act states "an abortion is no longer legal after 24 weeks except....."

Kind of points to the fact abortions are legal within certain limits

Thats why it was brought onto statute.

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Shasown

No it is a completely legal action if carried out within the time frames and for the reasons allowed.

http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content...tDocId=1181037

Its covered by the Abortion Act 1967 and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. The second act states "an abortion is no longer legal after 24 weeks except....."

Kind of points to the fact abortions are legal within certain limits

Thats why it was brought onto statute.

You said in your last post that it wasn't, I'm confused, you understand what I was trying to say anyhow

[Shasown]

If its inside the timeframes, for the reasons allowed and agreed to by two registered medical practitioners it is completely legal.

If one or more of the above conditions is not met, then it will more than likely be deemed to be illegal.

[Eye_Spy]

we are bombarded with seual images and innuendos constatly, but people face harrasment for visiting 'ladies of the night', then we wonder why theres so many sex crimes in the UK, or is the UK just so **** up, that there would be all these sex crimes regardless of whether prostitution was lawful.

personally i cannot see the diffrence between women that sell their bodies for sex, or women that sell their bodies for mundane tasks, eg stocking shelves or flipping burgers, all are prostituting their bodies in one way or another.

[bananarama]

Originally Posted by Eye_Spy

we are bombarded with seual images and innuendos constatly, but people face harrasment for visiting 'ladies of the night', then we wonder why theres so many sex crimes in the UK, or is the UK just so **** up, that there would be all these sex crimes regardless of whether prostitution was lawful.

personally i cannot see the diffrence between women that sell their bodies for sex, or women that sell their bodies for mundane tasks, eg stocking shelves or flipping burgers, all are prostituting their bodies in one way or another.

Flipping burgers is hardly selling their bodies for sex.......However on the same theme you suggest.......When a guy spends money on a date lets face it he hopes he can score a hit and by spending he is potentially buying.If the date accepts and rewards then she has been paid for sex.......The majority of people prostitute themselves in one form or another they just don't all make a living out of it......

As a matter of human rights between consenting adults of course it should always be legal for consenting people to obtain sexual relief by any reasonable consenting means......

[Simone.]

Yes, they really should.

People clearly still sell their bodies even though brothels are ilegal in this country, they should be just so prostitutes have a safe place to work.