First they legalized pot in Colorado, now they want to legalize prostitution. Those blue states are quite something….. But that’s what you get with communists.
A bill introduced into the Colorado State Senate last week would make Colorado the first state in the U.S. to fully decriminalize prostitution if it became law.
Senate Bill 26-097 would require the entire state to decriminalize “commercial sexual activity among consenting adults,” both for people who buy sex and who would sell it. This would be unique in the U.S., as the only other states with any form of legal prostitution, Maine and Nevada, still have certain rules around it.
In Nevada, for instance, prostitution is only legal within licensed houses of prostitution, or brothels, and some counties in the state have banned those.
In Maine, meanwhile, buying sex is still illegal, only selling sex has been decriminalized. Democrats there who supported that law said this was to reduce punishments for sex workers who are victims of crimes and make reporting crimes easier, which is the same argument Colorado’s bill has for legalizing it here.
“Criminalizing prostitution endangers adults who engage in consensual sexual activity,” Colorado’s proposed bill reads. “Fear of criminal punishment among consenting adults engaged in commercial sexual activity encourages physical, emotional, and structural violence against sex workers, subjects them to economic crimes, and increases resistance to harm-reduction practices. Sex workers are less likely to report these crimes or seek medical help following an assault.”