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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Well, I think also that there's also the notion that the transaction is not necessarily on equal footing for all participants. I generally don't have a problem with sex workers getting legitimacy, but I do have a problem with the sexual and monetary explotation of women, men and children by third party brokers. For whatever it's worth, most women searching for weathly husbands go into the deal on their own terms and generally reap the rewards for themselves. That's not necessarily the case for most prostitutes.
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Those risks are easily legislated away.
I'd go it one step further on those laws... I'd allow people to walk away from marriages without having to pay any alimony or settelement save child support if they can prove the spouse entered the marriage (a) just because he or she desperately wanted to be married or wanted a child or (b) for any sort of economic gain. They'd call it a "marrying for illegitimate reasons" law.
I say this as someone who just heard a really bad story from a close friend who got raked over the coals for a barrel of cash by a really, really shitty person. The divorce laws are really, really fucked up. He's a prince. I'd have trashed every bit of property and gutted every bank account and shipped the money to the Caymans before I'd give it up the way this guy did.
What the hell is the matter with some people? Didn't everyone's parents at least try to impart principles of deceny into their kids?
