legalizing prostitution in South Africa: Window for exploitation

[alexia]

first i'm from south Africa so can offend. our brilliant government want to legalize prostitution and their reason is that

'rape will increase because more men will be coming into the country'

-mind you that's a response i would expect from a president who has a grade 6 certificate.

am i insane to think that by legalizing prostitution south Africa is opening a window for exploitation???

can this country really deal with the higher HIV and AIDS rate?

-mind you once again according to our president we can solve the problem by taking a shower.

with a man as smart as mister Zuma god alone knows why south Africa is not a first world country.

proof that the world makes no sense

[Kofi]

That is one problem with Africans. We want to be like the others forgetting about where we are coming from. What makes Africa Africa is our culture and traditions.

You are teaching the child not to fornicate and yet you are legalizing prostitution. You are teaching the girl child to wait till marriage yet you are giving them the opportunity to go out and sell their bodies. We want to be like the others.

The others are legalizing prostitution so Africans want to legalize prostitution too forgetting that the others are not Africans. Most of the times, the so-called educated leaders turn the most foolish amongst the fools.

It is good to give people their rights but don't forget a fool has no right. Giving a fool the right to do whatever pleases him isn't the best way of doing things.

Prostitution is 'un-African' and any African leader who supports prostitution is "un-African" and doesn't fit to be an African leader in my opinion.

legalizing prostitution is a very stupid idea and I think all the people involved in this decision should be ashamed of themselves. What is so good about prostitution that so many law makers are working so hard to legalize it? Prostitution? God have mercy

Relax people. I think it's a step in the right direction for SA to acknowledge and legalize prostitution as a business.

first of all. legalize it and let people pay taxes just like any other legal work. the same thing applies to drugs. let people open shops and sell ganja, etc. so they can pay taxes. the point I am trying to make it that, whether you legalize it or not, a prostitute will always be prostitute. whether you take guns away from people or not, there will always be criminals in the society. whether you ban ganja or not ganja shall remain so why not legalize all these and let people pay taxes for selling and using them?

I see nothing wrong with legalizing prostitution. After all prostitution is the oldest profession in the world.

not just Africa. it is wrong to legalize prostitution anywhere in the world.