Makes No Sense...

From the NY Times in regards to Dominique Strauss-Kahn:

Not least in France, where sex with prostitutes is not illegal, but soliciting and pimping are, the case has generated questions about whether the laws against prostitution need updating. Some argue that the country should adopt Sweden’s practice of prosecuting the clients of prostitution rather than the prostitutes themselves, some of whom can be victims of abuse, coercion or trafficking.

If one needs a prime example of misandry this would be it. If it is OK to have sex with a prostitute, that is, if it is OK to conduct the actual business, how is it that soliciting is illegal?

Imagine that you were told that buying alcohol was legal but you couldn't go to the store and ask for the bottle on the shelf.

What these kinds of laws actually represent is a irrational criminalization of [heterosexual] male behavior. What kind of people pass these kinds of laws? If the product or service is legal, then it's solicitation is legal. You cannot have business of ANY kind without solicitation.

It is high time to remove the emotionally imbalanced and those susceptible to their pleadings out of government and away from the levers of legislation.