Eliot Spitzer Asked If Prostitution Should Remain Illegal
MICHAEL SMERCONISH: One more question among a long list of those that you are just sick and tired of answering. Should prostitution be illegal?
ELIOT SPITZER: Again, I'm not the right person. I think that -- no, certain parts -- when I was governor, I was proud of the fact -- and this is what caused attention --that we passed much tougher human trafficking laws. And I think the problem is that prostitution is, in fact, integrally related with other parts of criminal activity that is fundamentally wrong, dangerous, violative, on any dimension.
If people are saying, look, two people consensually having sex and there's money, when you define it that benignly, it seems somewhat like smoking dope and people say, 'a ha, decriminalize it.' But it is integrally related with other aspects of criminal behavior, so I'm not sure I'm ready to go there. (Hardball, July 8, 2013)
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