When Well-Fed and Warm, Lust Awakens: On Legalizing the Sex Industry

Today someone wrote "Should the Sex Industry Be Legalized?" The most detestable line in it is: "The scope of this discussion is limited to sex services and the sex industry related to legitimate sexual needs outside of marriage and romantic love, and is limited to male sexual needs only." What do you mean "limited to male sexual needs only"? Is this so-called legalization of the sex industry built on a new form of gender inequality? Any attempt to create new gender inequality is garbage and must be firmly opposed — including this kind of sex industry legalization.

Of course, if one explores this issue from the standpoint of gender equality, it should be fully supported. Many hypocrites, standing on the garbage foundation of so-called morality, rail against the legalization of the sex industry. They merely exploit the excessive moralization built into current Chinese law. The de-moralization of law is an inevitable requirement of historical development — this has been repeatedly stated in previous posts — and the legalization of the sex industry is precisely an important marker of the de-moralization of law.

Previous posts have also emphasized the danger that the enormous underground economy in China's current economy poses to overall economic security. Within the underground economy, the sex industry is obviously a significant component. Keeping the sex industry illegal means keeping it permanently underground, and the damage this does to China's overall economic security cannot be underestimated. When well-fed and warm, lust awakens. The legalization of the sex industry is both the inevitable result and a driving force of economic development!

The legalization of the sex industry must be built on the foundation of gender equality. Gender equality is the most basic legal requirement. Without gender equality, there can be no legalization of the sex industry at all. The practical legalization of the sex industry must meet the following prerequisites: 1. Simultaneously serve people of different genders and different sexual orientations. 2. There must be strict standards for services and corresponding safety measures. 3. It should be managed economically according to general service-industry standards. 4. There should be certain industry-specific entry requirements. 5. Attention must be paid to protecting minors as restricted by law.

In truth, the legalization of the sex industry is an inevitable trend. No matter how unhappy moralists may be, a trend is a trend — it is only a matter of time. But how to bring the long-buried underground sex industry into the sunlight — on this matter of sooner or later, sooner is better than later.