[quote=harvey]Thanks for the clarification. I’ll be sure to avoid the authoritarian regimes of Sweden and Norway on my next trip to Europe.
So was Germany an authoritarian regime all the way up till the year 2002? Interesting, I thought they got rid of the authoritarian stuff back in 1945…[/quote]
Not so fast buddy! I never said that all countries that prohibit this business are authoritarian. In fact this is my text that you called “ridiculous”:
[quote=Diego Mamani]What this graph shows is that other than the US, South Africa, and some Scandinavian countries, this business is outlawed wherever there are authoritarian regimes.[/quote]
So, clearly, if the meaning of “other than” is understood, I was never referring to Sweden or Norway as authoritarian. (These countries are interesting in that they don’t criminalize prostitutes, but johns instead, which is a superior approach in my opinion.)
If you read my text carefully, you’ll see that my argument was that authoritarian regimes almost always prohibit this business. But somehow you interpreted that to mean that “only authoritarian regimes make prostitution illegal,” which is obviously nonsense.
