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Stryst

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4. And how is this a valid use of police dollars?
Sat Feb 1, 2020, 12:59 PM
Feb 2020

Access to pornography and legal prostitution both have a direct, provable negative correlation with rape and sexual assault.

" Researchers at a public research institute in the Netherlands discovered that when major cities in that country opened tippelzones, or areas where street prostitutes could work legally, reports of rape and sexual abuse declined by as much as 30 to 40 percent in the first two years after the zones were opened. In cities that licensed the prostitutes permitted to work in these tippelzones, rapes and sexual abuse dropped by as much as 40 percent, while the reductions in sexual violence were slightly lower in zones that did not enforce the licensing of sex workers." http://ftp.iza.org/dp9038.pdf

The number one reason I vote Dem, and oppose the Republican agenda, is that I have a deep seated hatred of wasting public resources, especially when the way they're using those resources is provably against the public health, and only serves the moralism fetish of a minority of this great society.

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