Hello Mr Kuby,
Apologies ahead of time for poor grammer and possible spelling mistakes!

Even though I often disagree with you, maybe a little more then %50 of the time, I enjoy your show I find your style entertaining and your banter is very informative, and even when I strongly disagree with your conclusions I do get the sense your opinions are sincere and based on a great deal of thought.
On the question of prostitution I have to say that I believe it should be legalized for several reasons;

1) The dangers associated with prostitution is greatly aggravated by the fact that the illegal nature of the profession prevents women from reporting incidents of rape and abuse.

2) the same condition means women "and some men" are forced to work in usually filthy conditions, with no security leaving them fully at the mercy of whoever they are with. legalized unionized sex work would allow for cleaner facilities with a means of holding customers accountable for anything they may do.

3) The basic right of a human being to do what he or she wants with his or her own body, Frankly the thought of the government telling people what sexual activity is acceptable sounds frighteningly republican.

Oh yes, so female graduate students come on to disgusting bankers, and other related businessmen earn precious dollars to pay their tuition. Now . . . is she is in an MBA program, and is farily intellegent, she can garner a nice job, or pull a Madame DuBarry, or Madame de Pompadour getting to the board room via the bedroom.

I understand that selling a body for money is what many women do to pay the bills, and many of them do it under duress. As a Stalinist, you should understnd, for every Lenin, there is a Kruskaya, who was his mistress, as well as fellow Party member. Stalin his his "confidantes", too, who know how to get to corridors of power. The reality is, though, as you point out, that there aren't that many good looking, intelligent, and sexy women who know how pry vital information from "their men", Nonetheless, the potential is there. Its not impossible that some Oriental sex-slave,brought over ty some . . . who meets up with some well-to-do Oriental man, can turn a trick, and then some. Say, persuade the man to release her from her "obligation" and become his "other woman". Loyalty to one's wife is not always a virtue among some men, so . . .

For the record, Ciccolina (pronounced Chicholina}, a Hungarian immigrant to Italy made a career by showing her breasts in public. She managed to get elected to the Italian Parliatment and promote legislation that helped women. It is said that she pulled shtick in the Parliament, revealing her breasts more than once. In Israel, Pnina Rosenblum was considered one of the best "ladies of the night" to the point she was used by the foreign ministry to "take care of business". In time, she became rather rich, and now owns one of the leading cosmetic firms. She ran for office, garnered 20,000+ votes, and became a legislater in the State of Israel. (Israel has proportional representional system where a seat in the Knesset is translated as a certain number of "votes" in the general election.)

The bottom line is that, in principle "working women" can be in the most disgusting and exploitative situations, or, it can be something where a woman can get ahead, and go beyond "sexual exploitation". Assuming it was regulated, and a hard working girl has a chance to seek out her disgusting banker to provide her with what she needs to get ahead and become an equally disgusting banker in her own right, why not go for it.

Zev Davis

Natzrat "Illit, ISRAEL