Prostitution & Smoking Marijuana is Legal in Holland
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Here in Nederland prostitution is legal. There is even a Whore's Trade Union to protect their rights as sex workers. This trade union has 20,000 prostitutes as members; and that's in a little country that is about the size of some of the counties in West Texas.
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You can go into any coffee shop (there are several within 2 or 3 miles of my house) and they will hand you a menu which shows all the varieties of marijuana and hashish they sell. You can smoke your dope there, and you are permitted to buy a certain amount to "take away" kind of like you would with Chinese Food. Much like a combination bar and liquor store, except for soft drugs.
You are well within your legal rights if you sit in a lawn chair on your front yard and openly light up a joint, right in front of the police. Mind you, I don't do drugs. At all. Honest. --I think both drugs and alcohol make one stupid, and you do and say foolish things when you are intoxicated on either. --And after three divorces I am a bit of an expert at doing foolish things.
And the Dutch government provides needles free of charge to their heroin addicts.
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I like beautiful women and sex a lot, and I'm pretty open minded about it. I was as promiscuous as I could be when I was younger, so I've had sex with my share of women in my life. But I never screwed around while I was married. I was always "true" to my wives. Really.
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The late 1960's was a really interesting time historically. --""Free Love" was the order of the day.
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The timing was post-invention of the birth control pill, but pre-AIDS. So most people who were in their teens in these years used soft drugs recreationally and got lots of sex. In the history of the planet it was truly a unique period. It was a great time to choose to be a teenager.
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It was after WWII and at least in Europe and America most folks had enough money to get by. We really believed that we were going to make a difference, that we were going to improve the planet and the ethical behavior of our species.
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Peace, Love, Freedom, Happiness, Civil Rights, and an ------a -----------------The End to World Hunger
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Instead we ended up with Islamic Terrorists, AIDS, silicon implants, and Global Warming. And materialistic, arrogant children who are completely apathetic politically.
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Oh well...could be worse. ---At least we got lots of sex.
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Growing up in El Paso I got drunk in Juarez countless times as a teenager. There were no age restrictions at all. If you had enough money (and things were really cheap in Mexico) you could buy virtually anything you wanted. I watched some pretty extreme sex shows in Juarez too. Dogs and chicks, etc.
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The whore houses over in Juarez (sometimes referred to as Whorez) operated very openly. In fact there were uniformed policemen with guns standing just inside the doors of the good ones just to make sure that everyone remained happy and peaceful. The biggest crime was not underage sex or drinking, it was not paying. No shit.
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One time I saw one of my friends get chased out and down the street by a crowbar wielding, scantilly dressed young whore.
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But having lived most of my life within just a few miles of Whore Houses, I've never exactly directly paid for sex. Came close a few times, but never quite all the way. - - -Honest.
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Each of my ex-wives cost me dearly though, and probably if I had paid high-class, young, big-breasted, professional prostitutes for sex rather than depending upon my wives for it, I would have saved a lot of money. And in many cases I don't doubt that the whores would have been a bit nicer, more gracious, and more courteous to me than my wives were.
I've been completely sober for years now. Not even one little sip of alcohol.-- And I gave up recreational drug use years ago. The strongest chemical I do now is cappucinno. I'm so old now that the only women who come on to me anymore are the Grandmother types with blue hair. So it goes without saying that I'm not getting any. But I am no prude.
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Even though I'm really open minded about sex and don't find paid-sex to be sinful I'm opposed to overt prostitution. In my opinion prostitution demeans women. And when you demean women you demean humanity in general. Prostitution is a profession that can only be pursued by the young and pretty, so it is a serious put-down to all women who are older and/or somewhat more rotund than would profitably work out for a hooker.
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Here in Nederland prostitution is legal. There is even a Whore's Trade Union to protect their rights as sex workers. This trade union has 20,000 prostitutes as members; and that's in a little country that is about the size of some of the counties in West Texas.
-
You can go into any coffee shop (there are several within 2 or 3 miles of my house) and they will hand you a menu which shows all the varieties of marijuana and hashish they sell. You can smoke your dope there, and you are permitted to buy a certain amount to "take away" kind of like you would with Chinese Food. Much like a combination bar and liquor store, except for soft drugs.
You are well within your legal rights if you sit in a lawn chair on your front yard and openly light up a joint, right in front of the police. Mind you, I don't do drugs. At all. Honest. --I think both drugs and alcohol make one stupid, and you do and say foolish things when you are intoxicated on either. --And after three divorces I am a bit of an expert at doing foolish things.
And the Dutch government provides needles free of charge to their heroin addicts.
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I like beautiful women and sex a lot, and I'm pretty open minded about it. I was as promiscuous as I could be when I was younger, so I've had sex with my share of women in my life. But I never screwed around while I was married. I was always "true" to my wives. Really.
--
The late 1960's was a really interesting time historically. --""Free Love" was the order of the day.
-
The timing was post-invention of the birth control pill, but pre-AIDS. So most people who were in their teens in these years used soft drugs recreationally and got lots of sex. In the history of the planet it was truly a unique period. It was a great time to choose to be a teenager.
-
It was after WWII and at least in Europe and America most folks had enough money to get by. We really believed that we were going to make a difference, that we were going to improve the planet and the ethical behavior of our species.
-
-
Peace, Love, Freedom, Happiness, Civil Rights, and an ------a -----------------The End to World Hunger
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-
Instead we ended up with Islamic Terrorists, AIDS, silicon implants, and Global Warming. And materialistic, arrogant children who are completely apathetic politically.
-
Oh well...could be worse. ---At least we got lots of sex.
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Growing up in El Paso I got drunk in Juarez countless times as a teenager. There were no age restrictions at all. If you had enough money (and things were really cheap in Mexico) you could buy virtually anything you wanted. I watched some pretty extreme sex shows in Juarez too. Dogs and chicks, etc.
-
The whore houses over in Juarez (sometimes referred to as Whorez) operated very openly. In fact there were uniformed policemen with guns standing just inside the doors of the good ones just to make sure that everyone remained happy and peaceful. The biggest crime was not underage sex or drinking, it was not paying. No shit.
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One time I saw one of my friends get chased out and down the street by a crowbar wielding, scantilly dressed young whore.
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But having lived most of my life within just a few miles of Whore Houses, I've never exactly directly paid for sex. Came close a few times, but never quite all the way. - - -Honest.
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Each of my ex-wives cost me dearly though, and probably if I had paid high-class, young, big-breasted, professional prostitutes for sex rather than depending upon my wives for it, I would have saved a lot of money. And in many cases I don't doubt that the whores would have been a bit nicer, more gracious, and more courteous to me than my wives were.
I've been completely sober for years now. Not even one little sip of alcohol.-- And I gave up recreational drug use years ago. The strongest chemical I do now is cappucinno. I'm so old now that the only women who come on to me anymore are the Grandmother types with blue hair. So it goes without saying that I'm not getting any. But I am no prude.
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Even though I'm really open minded about sex and don't find paid-sex to be sinful I'm opposed to overt prostitution. In my opinion prostitution demeans women. And when you demean women you demean humanity in general. Prostitution is a profession that can only be pursued by the young and pretty, so it is a serious put-down to all women who are older and/or somewhat more rotund than would profitably work out for a hooker.
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It works the other way around too. Hence the saying, "The man who marries for money ends up earning his money many times over."
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Selling one's body is often the option of last resort for young women who are so stupid that they get themselves addicted to hard drugs. I am told that condom usage apparently is not universal among prostitutes so the growth and proliferation of the AIDS/HIV epidemic is 
certainly a valid concern.
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Thus in general I am opposed to prostitution.
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Now Get This: --Up in Sweden there are women who argue that men's opposition to prostitution is just another form of male domination and male violence against women. Have these dumb Sweedish chicks been smoking those funny little yellow cigarettes? Or maybe their syphilis has affected their intelligence. On the other hand what can you expect from a country which refused to oppose Hitler or support the allies during WWII? --Ok, I know that the primary fame of the entire little country comes from their second-rate porn industry, but this contention by the Sweedish whores is absurd. --
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I oppose prostitution (very gently mind you) not because it is either sinful or inherently unethical, rather because in most cases it harms the women doing it. And harming women is harmful to humanity in general.
The natives here in Europe don't find any of this to be the slightest bit strange. Even after living here in the Netherlands for 15 years I must admit that I still find the attitude here in Old Europe to be a little bit odd. ---A nice place. ---Really. --But a wee bit strange.
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On the other hand, here in Holland they do have a much lower percentage of teenage pregnancy than we do in America or England. --And drug abuse/addiciton is a far worse problem in America than it is here in Holland. Maybe this is only because the Dutch have a very small country that historically has been relatively homogenous ethnically and culturally.
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Or maybe the Dutch dike-finger-pluggers do indeed have a more effective approach to dealing with sex and drugs than we do. I still can't make up my mind. Probably the answer is somewhere in between.
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This is a link to the web site of the Dutch Prostitution Information Center: http://www.pic-amsterdam.com/html/english.html
certainly a valid concern. -
Thus in general I am opposed to prostitution.
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Now Get This: --Up in Sweden there are women who argue that men's opposition to prostitution is just another form of male domination and male violence against women. Have these dumb Sweedish chicks been smoking those funny little yellow cigarettes? Or maybe their syphilis has affected their intelligence. On the other hand what can you expect from a country which refused to oppose Hitler or support the allies during WWII? --Ok, I know that the primary fame of the entire little country comes from their second-rate porn industry, but this contention by the Sweedish whores is absurd. --
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I oppose prostitution (very gently mind you) not because it is either sinful or inherently unethical, rather because in most cases it harms the women doing it. And harming women is harmful to humanity in general.
The natives here in Europe don't find any of this to be the slightest bit strange. Even after living here in the Netherlands for 15 years I must admit that I still find the attitude here in Old Europe to be a little bit odd. ---A nice place. ---Really. --But a wee bit strange.
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On the other hand, here in Holland they do have a much lower percentage of teenage pregnancy than we do in America or England. --And drug abuse/addiciton is a far worse problem in America than it is here in Holland. Maybe this is only because the Dutch have a very small country that historically has been relatively homogenous ethnically and culturally.
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Or maybe the Dutch dike-finger-pluggers do indeed have a more effective approach to dealing with sex and drugs than we do. I still can't make up my mind. Probably the answer is somewhere in between.
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This is a link to a good BBC article on the subject: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6216801.stm
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