Sex Sells, So Why is Prostitution Illegal?

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Iliza Shlesinger

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Iliza Shlesinger is a comedian, actor, writer, and host of the podcast "Ask Iliza Anything." Her new book, "All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions," and her new Netflix special, "Hot Forever," both premiere on October 11. www.iliza.com

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It's always hard for me at the airport when I see like a drug sniffing working dog, but it's like a yellow lab. I'm like, really? I can't pet the yellow lab. I don't. I don't. You can ruin the dog. I don't want to ruin the dog and his chances at retirement. You can ruin it. I'm not going to. Yeah. Those drugs sniffing dogs make me fucking nervous. Because I'm like, what are they looking for? Not weed. That's the truth. But you can only teach a dog to look for one thing. You know, you can't say, hey, I want the truth. You can't teach a dog, hey, I want you to look for guns and coke. Right. It's like residue. Right. Or right. Right. Do you smell gunpowder? Do you smell marijuana? Like, what do you smell? Like, what do you what do you train? You train the dog to smell heroin. Go find mushrooms. Bring them back. Right. Find them. Find them, you little fuck. Yeah, definitely the heroin, because I think you can make more things out of that. Well, it's one that kills you. That's one of the reasons why they should look out for heroin. Fentanyl. I think it's smell fentanyl. That would be nice. They can smell fucking anything. But I feel like fentanyl is more local. I actually know. I don't know what I'm talking about. I feel like with prescription drugs, like that's more like it ravages a community. And I don't when I think of like airplanes, I think like weight being pushed through from other countries. But I don't know. I think it's all things. Meth. It's everything. It's the really fucked up part about it is it's almost like what we're talking about with football, that football be safer if there was no helmets. It doesn't make sense. And drugs would be safer if they were regulated. Or if they were legal. I feel that way about prostitution. Yeah. And I'm going to actually broach this here. I was going to write a joke about it. I'm just going to say it. I believe a state issued, if you apply for funding for support, you're going to school, like a loan, or the state's paying for you to go to school, you get a scholarship. You should also be able to apply for a state issued prostitute. If you are a little socially awkward, maybe you haven't had sex, because men get weird if they haven't been made privy to the way a woman is, or they haven't had sex and you're going to college. Let's get you a prostitute. Let's get you having sex twice a week so you're not afraid of women. Let's get you a little less weird. Let's fund a prostitute. Well, I think if it didn't have the social stigma behind it, there's a lot of people that would choose it over working at Wendy's. Great. There's a lot of people that choose it. But we have an issue. As long as it's a choice. The social stigma is that there's something wrong with it, right? Because it's a woman saying, I want to do this with my body. That's what's upsetting. It's sort of that. But it's also, well, in this country, it's also connected to sex slavery. We think of it as like if someone is doing that, then maybe they are a sex slave. Like maybe there's someone who's... I think that's less on people's radars and it more has to do with the puritanical idea of shaming. There's a little bit of that, but I mean, that was one of the things that they were accusing Robert Kraft of. You remember Robert Kraft, who's the guy who owns the... It's Kraft or Kraft? It's Kraft, right? He's the guy who owned the New England Patriots. He went to a massage parlor in the game of Happy Ending. And then the next thing you know, they arrested him and told him that there's a video of it. And they were trying to get him to plead guilty and all this different shit that was going on to a guy who's like insanely, insanely wealthy, who just was going there to get jerked off. But one of the things they said was that it was that he was participating somehow in sex trafficking. And so they were accusing him of that. That was a big part of what the police were saying. Well, it turned out that none of the girls that worked there were sex traffickers. They're just prostitutes. And the woman that did it to him, she was like 40 years old. But none of this would have happened if it was legal, regulated. None of it would have happened if it was legal. But it's also, they were using that term to... They were accusing him of this thing and using that term to brand him this way to shame him. Wait, are you telling me that there was a news story where they used a buzzword? Yes. Yeah, it is a buzzword. Right. But it's a buzzword that's very specific in terms of the difference in the consequences that you would want someone to face. Whether they just went there to get jerked off or they participated in sex slavery. Right, you're not a part of a ring. I mean, you are because the ring ends with you. So because there's a demand for it, there is a supply. So that is by and large a part of the issue. And I say this not knowing a ton about sex slavery. But I do know that if you take away the stigma and you can normalize things very quickly, weed is a great example. Right? Yeah. You could do that. And even we've done this with women and bodies and the way that we look at people who are overweight. And we look at people with different things. Like we are getting to a place where it's less of a thing. I think you could do that with prostitution. I think so too. And it's fine. And look at it as like this is her choice. And if there wasn't an exception, exorbitant demand for it, it wouldn't be a thing. Yeah. It's just you can't tell people what to do with their bodies any other way, except when money is involved. That's where I have a problem with it. Except when taxes are involved. Yeah, but it's not even that. It's a societal position, right? If we were going to vote on it, most people would vote on no prostitution because they don't want their daughter or their sister, their mother to be a prostitute. That's how that's how or them. They don't want to be a prostitute. That's why they would vote on it. But this is the only thing that's completely legal to do. Like not only that, but it's what sells everything when Brad Pitt is fucking selling cologne. He's selling. I'm a hot man. If you if you get my clone, you might get some pussy. I'm looking right at that mouth. Yes. Look at them. It's beautiful. I can't. I agree. But that is the thing that is fucked up about all this. Like a woman can have sex with as many people as she wants for free. But if she charges, then all sudden it's correct. But you can charge for a back rub? Like what the fuck? Like why is it? You're like, I'm getting off either way. But it doesn't just doesn't make any sense. I agree with you. It's silly. It's restrictive. When it comes to the idea of a woman taking control of her own body, no taxes being paid. And the idea of someone being a whore because of our puritanical roots in this country. All those things combined make it a volatile topic. But at the end of the day, if she's going to make money that's going to go back into your society. That's going to be put to good use. It's going to be taxed. It's going to be in your community. What do you care what she's doing behind closed doors if it's safe and it's regulated just like weed all of a sudden there's standards now. There's a way to sanitize this. Yeah, I think so. And they did it in Australia. They did it in Nevada. Yeah, parts of it. Parts of it. But in Australia, they have I mean, it's full on there. You can do whatever you want. They have they have brothels. But I think it's also one of the things that we're conditioned to have a perspective on. It's similar to the drug issue. Like I don't want my friends or my daughters or my mother or anyone I know to be a prostitute. Right. So we have this like this position on it. I also don't want them to do coke. But I don't think coke should be illegal. I don't know. I don't think anybody should be able to lock you in a cage because you want to get coke up. Imagine if it were legal. How many less people would be dying just in a drug trade? Yes. And how many more people would be aware of how much you can do because you'd get actual coke. What a lot of the shit you're getting is being cut because you're getting it. You're buying it from people that aren't companies, right? If you're going to buy something from Nabisco, Nabisco is selling coke. Put the ingredients on it. It would be 100% coke. You'd be able to get real coke. Real coke? Nabisco flavored cocaine. Moreover, I mean, look in Europe, the way that they are with alcohol, like Italy, for example. Kids have wine when they're little. And sure, there's alcoholics there, but it's less of like a rum-springer freak-out when you are able to do something. That's a great way to put it, a rum-springer freak-out. What she's talking about, if you don't know, is the Amish have a thing. It's when they turn like 18, right? They get to go ham. They get to do whatever they want. They can watch TV. They could drink, smoke pot, and fuck. And they go crazy for a short period of time. And then at the end of that time, they can either leave the church forever or come back. And most of them come back. Right, because that's all you know. Also, you're probably so hungover, really, Jesus Christ. Someone make me some oatcakes. Get me back to cutting logs. Yeah. This is a real workout.