Football fans will be given ‘How to use brothels’ leaflets at the Euro 2008 championship: Why not end this stupid charade and legalise prostitution everywhere?

‘Travel broadens the mind’, they say - and it seems this is even true for those who merely come to watch the football:

FOOTBALL fans will be issued with leaflets on how to “use” hookers at next month’s Euro 2008 tournament. Prostitution is legal in Switzerland, which hosts the championship with Austria, and the Swiss Aids Federation will give out the leaflets in cities. They advise men to be polite, clean and not to drink alcohol to boost their “staying power”.

Ah yes, the oldest game in the world. It makes you wonder how our poor forefathers managed without these kinds of leaflets.

On a more serious note though, isn’t it time that the self-proclaimed civilised world put its collective head out of its pompous arse and just legalised prostitution altogether? Only yesterday I wrote a piece about the financial benefits of legalising drugs. The same goes for prostitution, obviously. Think of all the extra tax money if prostitution was legalised.

Not only that, of course. As with drugs, legalising prostitution would also mean getting rid of the ‘middle man’. Pimps, sex traders etcetera. If there were enough regulated brothels it would be much easier to deal with those who now prey on millions of women in the so-called civilised world.

I’m sure it wouldn’t solve all the problems in that oldest and possibly saddest of professions but it would surely help to bring the whole damn thing out of the Victorian closet and just deal with the fact that prostitution (like drugs) will never go away.

Ignoring facts never helps anything or anyone. Better deal with the world and human nature as they are and not as you would like them to be. As with all other things, dealing with things in a sensible manner always beats fantasy football solutions. In other words, more sensible laws and less ludicrous leaflets please.