Legalize It Already

Another politician felled by his own humanity. New York governor Eliot Spitzer is just the latest in an unending line of pols who've been caught with their pants down. If I were a politician I would have solved this problem long ago. I would have thought to myself, "A lot of us have been visiting prostitutes. Hmm. And we all control the laws. Hmm. I wonder how long it will take me to add those two things together and come up with a plan? Hmmmm."

I know this is America and we are the most sexually frustrated country in the world, but really, what's so wrong here? It is the oldest profession in the world. It will always be here. It always has. The government has no problem making money off of other vices, why is this one so taboo? Legalize it already people!

Not only do I think prostitution should be legalized, I think it should be subsidized as well. That could prove to be a tough one to overcome. I may be overzealous in thinking that I will see Universal Sex Care in my day, but I can dream. Until then I would settle for some sort of insurance plan. A $10 co-pay for a visit to a prostitute in my network wouldn't be horrible.

Sure the other side may argue that under a universal sex care package we would cease to get the quality we've come to expect. Is a BJ in Canada as good as one you'd get in the good ol US of A? Would the sex industry continue to grow if it was under governmental control? What kind of advancements in dildo technology will be made without the competition and encouragement of free market capitalism?

These are all questions that can only be answered by taking that first step. The Netherlands did it. Canada, England, Israel, France, Australia, New Zealand, and Nevada did it. Hell, even Iran did it. But can America do it? We used to be a country of pioneers. We used to be on the cutting edge. Now if the politicians would take a minute to think about ways to protect themselves from getting caught, we may get somewhere...