Prostitution And The Ipswich Serial Killer

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Dec 132006
 

There is currently what appears to be a serial killer on the loose (hopefully that is out of date before I finish writing this) in the Ipswich area targeting prostitutes. Why prostitutes ? Who knows what goes through the mind of a deranged killer, but one possibility is that prostitutes are relatively easy targets.

Frankly the current laws on prostitution in the UK are creating this situation. Whilst prostitution is not in itself illegal (something that many do not realise), the UK does seem to go out of the way to make prostitution as dangerous as possible. Because brothels are illegal, prostitutes are driven onto the streets (except of course for illegal brothels where women or men are kept as sex slaves); because soliciting for trade is illegal prostitutes have to keep their activities relatively discreet making some measure of safety by formalising things more difficult.

The moral minority who want to get rid of prostitution should realise that the attempt to get rid of prostitution by legal sanction is a complete failure. Whilst there are still women desperate enough to do almost anything to get money … frequently to feed a drug habit, prostitution will survive no matter how dangerous it becomes. And using the law to make a serial killer’s job easier is less moral than prostitution itself.

Ideally brothels should be legalised and sited in locations of existing late night activity … where nightclubs are located. Prostitutes should be encouraged to form worker’s co-operatives to run these brothels and the brothels should be inspected regularly. Not only would this make it far more difficult for a serial killer to prey on prostitutes, but would allow additional services for prostitutes … drug rehabilitation publicity and help for example. Legal brothels would also make it far easier to crack down on the kind of places that keep sex slaves … itself something that is well worth making a few sacrifices to stop.

I would far rather live next door to a brothel than make women work the streets and allow sex slavery to continue, and no I don’t visit prostitutes.

At the very least it is time for a brothel in Ipswich whilst this serial killer is still free … asking prostitutes to stop working for a while is not practical unless we are going to take care of their addiction to drugs at the same time!

Designer Stuff

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Oct 152006
 

It has just struck me … we have all this designer stuff … designer glasses (I wear ordinary ones), designer jeans, designer whatnots, etc. But who designed the other stuff ? After all we have ordinary jeans … were they designed by the tea boy, or a passer-by on the street ?

After all everything needs a designer, even the cheapest most rubbish sun-glasses you can find. In fact it’s possible that there are more design skills in designing something cheap and nasty as in designing something more expensive. After all it takes some skill to be so cheap 🙂

So remember ‘designer jeans’ are just expensive jeans.

Speed Kills ?

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Sep 212006
 

You often find those drivers who dislike speed limits claiming that it isn’t speed that kills, it is bad driving leading to accidents.

And they’re right … sort of 🙂

Driving at a high speed doesn’t kill anyone directly, but it does have a negative effect. Firstly driving at high speed increases the likelyhood of an accident because you have less time to react to dangers on the road … the faster you are travelling the quicker you will arrive at that car that has just drifted into your lane, and drive over that bicycle that has just fallen off the back of that car. Secondly if you do have an accident, the faster you are going, the more likely you are to wind up dead … the faster you are going, the harder you hit.

A variation on the second which is more important to me as someone who is most often a pedestrian, is that the faster you are going, the less likely a pedestrian you hit will survive.

Personally I would like to see speed limits reduced in built-up areas and on quiet country roads, but increased on major roads (motorways, dual-carriageways) and those limits enforced properly. Smaller roads have more dangers than larger roads, and the old upper speed limit of 70mph was worked out at a time when cars were far less safe than they are today.

Oh! One last word for those who keep whining about speed camera. Keep to the speed limit, and you won’t get caught. If you insist on breaking the law, don’t complain about the law being enforced.

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