FUTURES THREAD- prostitution and the business world

>>1600939
in the civilised parts of the world (where there are no murdering niggers) prostitution is already perfectly legal.
it's not a big deal

>>1600939
>How can we plan to profit off of this, without kneepads or kneepad accessories?

why would anyone do this? Its like you dont want to hedge your investments

This is something that I think about occasionally. I do think that when prostitution is inevitably legalized (In the US), enormous new-money fortunes will be built.

When I think about the concept of prostitution being capitalized upon in the Western world, I tend to think of how different nations or cities interact with prostitution/escort culture.

A lot of different countries have insanely different approaches to prostitution. There's almost literally no possible way to elaborate on how to capitalize off such an opportunity without knowing what the federal laws would stipulate in such a situation. Let me give you some examples:

In Australia, prostitution is legal only in brothels, but there are a slew of retarded as fuck laws, like the brothel can't be located in any metropolitan area, no alcohol or smoking on the premises, etc.

In Poland, prostitution is full-on legal, but brothels are not. I really can't wrap my head around that one. You can go through escort sites, but it's really not the same thing as actually physically seeing a girl up front in your face.

In Thailand, prostitution isn't even strictly legal, but they have almost 3 FUCKING MILLION sex workers. Pattaya is a city in Thailand that is essentially one enormous brothel with multitudes of bars, BDSM clubs, ladyboys, all of everything you could ever image. It's essentially just a sex city. Would something like that ever even be possible in the Western world?

When prostutiton is legalized, pimping almost universally stays illegal. The current move for legalisation is carried by fantasies of empowering sex workers after all.

This has given rise to a lot of dodgy arrangements where de-facto pimps pretend to only run infrastructrue for "self-employed" women. You own the building, you do the advertising, etc. Women only rent rooms for a night.

Reality looks different of course. The rent is so jacked-up they have to work every day of the week with several customers a night. They also rent their private quarters from the same guy, who has near total control over their lives (probably also took away their passports, etc).

Escorts and high-class prostitutes already exist and don't need a pimp. The only field this would open up is cheap prostitution for the masses. It's messy, ugly and in practise very far removed from the spirit of empowering sex workers. No empowered women sells herself for 50 bucks. So the industry will continue running on forced immigrant labour. And once it's legalized the main selling point will be price. If you're cheaper, people will flock to your establishment. It's the free market! In Germany recently flat-rate brothels started popping up. Pay a one-time entry fee, fuck as many women as you want. That's the kind of competition you'd have to deal with when trying to run an honest establishment.

It's a shitty business for shitty people serving shitty customers.

>>1600975
Imagine Black Friday deals tho.

>>1600939
>Do you think it will come to the point of public trading for national businesses?

Why should it? It's a service industry, there's no economies of scale. They don't need R&D or new plants requiring massive amounts of capital which incentivises going public.

Also, the kind of people running such enterprises don't want intense scruitny, publishing their books, etc.

Given how ingrained "decency" is in the US public consciousness, large sex businesses will probably never fly. Look at how much porn is still an issue. The porn industry is still frequently persecuted and marginalized, payment companies and advertising agencies refuse to cooperate with porn sites, etc. Porn is a perfectly legal business, but it doesn't matter because it's "dirty". The same would happen with legal prostitution. No big investors would take the risk of putting millions into a public company that gets protested every week for their (mis)treatment of women.

>>1600939
Haha, finally I'll be a pimp.
>Brothel REITs

>>1600981
Porn is "feel good" legislation a lot of the time for moral decency stuff, there's the California bill right now about making condoms mandatory, but it will not pass as it A) is a massive health issue for extended sexual contact in adult entertainment production and B) would just move the industry to Nevada/Florida and lose the state genuinely quite a bit of revenue.

As far as why it could be, it's a service industry, but in many ways it's an extension of an entertainment business as well, with extremely low cost of production and profitability, if brothels become legal they would require at least some level of construction for new facilities if not simply for renovation of existing business spaces. But also I 200000000% concede i'm probably literally retarded and also this is all hypothetical.

>>1600994
Yeah, Prop 60 is bullshit. It's just a greedy guy trying to cash in on fundamentalist outrage. But even the fact that due to the legal situation the porn industry is pretty much limited to Florida, Nevada and Porn Valley is telling that's it's far from being widely accepted and still a legal minefield to navigate.

I don't know. Maybe you're right. I look at Japan (arguably among the societies which have the most positive public image of kinky sex) where everything but literal penis in vagina with strangers for money is completely legal (even anal and escorting because after a "date" it's not a stranger anymore). And I don't see the sex industry run by "Mitsubishi Pleasure Services Inc." - rather it's still run by the Yakuza, even the completely legal parts. Maybe the US is different. I don't know.