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Most of the answers here are not particularly about 21st century, I will list both 21st and 20th century one by one. First of all let me make this clear that movies can screw our minds through various ways, they need not only be the ones with twisted plot or weird endings. Mind screwing movies should also include the movies that made you think philosophically or captivate your mind through intense or disturbing emotional drama without any major plot twists :-Movies that screw your mind through complex plots:2015:Ex Machina (2015) - A young programmer is selected to participate in a breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breathtaking female A.I.Terminator Genisys (2015) - John Connor sends Kyle Reese back in time to protect Sarah Connor, but when he arrives in 1984, nothing is as he expected it to be.2014:Project Almanac (2014) - A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.Time Lapse (2014) - Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24hrs into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.Predestination (2014) - The life of a time-traveling Temporal Agent. On his final assignment, he must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time.Interstellar(2014) - A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in an attempt to find a potentially habitable planet that will sustain humanity.Gone Girl (2014) - With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.Edge of Tomorrow (2014) - An officer finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with the alien race. His skills increase as he faces the same brutal combat scenarios, and his union with a Special Forces warrior gets him closer to defeating the enemy.Transcendence (2014) - A scientist's drive for artificial intelligence, takes on dangerous implications when his consciousness is uploaded into one such program.X Men Days of Future Past (2014) - The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.2013:Frequencies (2013) - Are human conditions, actions, relationships determined by fate, free will, or a combination of both? At any rate, if it we cannot control it - should we care?Coherence (2013) - Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead.Under the Skin (2013) - A mysterious woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. Events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.Lucia (2013) - A man suffering from insomnia is tricked into buying a drug, Lucia, that makes his desires come true in his dreams, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.Her (2013) - A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need.Trance (2013) - An art auctioneer who has become mixed up with a group of criminals partners with a hypnotherapist in order to recover a lost painting.Oblivion (2013) - A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself.Movie 43 (2013) - A series of interconnected short films follows a washed-up producer as he pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.2012:Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) -Looper (2012) - In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent 30 years into the past, where a hired gun awaits. Someone like Joe, who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by transporting back Joe's future self.Upstream Color (2013) - A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.Cloud Atlas (2012) - An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.Now You See Me (2012) - An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) - Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.2011:Source Code (2011) - An action thriller centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.Melancholia (2011) - Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.Headhunters (2011) - An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.Unknown (2011) - A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.Awake (2011) TV series - Must watch - After a car accident takes the life of a family member, a police detective lives two alternating parallel lives, one with his wife and one with his son. Is one of his "realities" merely a dream?The Tree of Life (2011) - The story of a family in Waco Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting philosophies.The Adjustment Bureau (2011) - The affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.Sucker Punch (2011) - A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the mental facility.Another Earth (2011) - On the night of the discovery of a duplicate planet in the solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.2010:Shutter Island (2010) - Drama set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding nearby.I Saw the Devil (2010) - When his pregnant fiancee becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, a secret agent blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge.Confessions (2010) - A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.TRON : Legacy (2010) - The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's creation turned bad and a unique ally who was born inside the digital domain of The Grid.Inception (2010) - In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception.Black Swan (2010) - A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.The Ghost Writer (2010) - A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.Incendies (2010) - Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history, and fulfill their mother's last wishes.2009:Dogtooth (2009) -Three teenagers live isolated, without leaving their house, because their over-protective parents say they can only leave when their dogtooth falls out.Mr. Nobody (2009) - A tale that spans different time zones of the 20th and 21st centuries. fantasy, about life, death everything.Antichrist (2009) - A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.Moon (2009) - Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.Enter the Void (2009) - An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal gone bad. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.Frequently asked questions about time travel (2009) - While drinking at their local pub, three social outcasts attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum.Triangle (2009) - The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas.Time Traveler's Wife (2009) - A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage.Ink (2009) - A mysterious creature, know as Ink, steals a child's soul in hopes of using it as a bargaining chip to join the Incubi - the group of supernatural beings responsible for creating nightmares. Must watch,one of the unique movie, a very different of its kind.Surrogates (2009) - Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.Law Abiding Citizen (2009) - A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.2008:Waltz with Bashir (2008) - An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.Synecdoche, New York (2008) - A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.2007:Timecrimes (2007) - A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences. One of best in time travel Paradox, Amazing !The Man from the Earth (2007) - The movie begins with Professor John Oldman packing his belongings onto his truck, preparing to move to a new home. philosophical , must watchUnbreakable (2007) - A suspense thriller with supernatural overtones that revolves around a man who learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.Sunshine (2007) - A team of international astronauts are sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.2006:The Science of Sleep (2006) - A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society (2006) - A.D. 2034. It has been two years since Motoko Kusanagi left Section 9. Togusa is now the new leader of the team, that has considerably increased its appointed personnel.Paprika (2006) - When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) - A teenage girl finds that she has the ability to leap through time. With her newfound power, she tries to use it to her advantage, but soon finds that tampering with time can lead to some rather discomforting results.A Scanner Darkly (2006) - An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.The Prestige (2006) - The rivalry between two magicians is exacerbated when one of them performs the ultimate illusion.Day Watch (2006) - A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.Lucky Number Slevin (2006) - A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him.The Illusionist (2006) - In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above his social standing.The Fountain (2006) - Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.Stranger than Fiction (2006) - An IRS auditor suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his work, to his love-interest, to his death.Pans Labyrinth (2006) - In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.2005:The Jacket (2005) - A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a Doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them.V for Vendetta (2005) - In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman.Revolver (2005) - Gambler Jake Green enters into a game with potentially deadly consequences.Stay (2005) - This movie focuses on the attempts of a psychiatrist to prevent one of his patients from committing suicide while trying to maintain his own grip on reality. you may've never seen anything like it, need to watch twice2004:The Butterfly Effect (2004) - A young man blocks out harmful memories of significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life. Must watch !Ghost in the Shell Innocence (2004) - In the year 2032, Batô, a cyborg detective for the anti-terrorist unit Public Security Section 9, investigates the case of a female robot--one created solely for sexual pleasure--who slaughtered her owner.Night Watch (2004) - A fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (2004) - A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.Primer (2004) - Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.The Machinist (2004) - An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.2003:The Matrix Reloaded (2003) - Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until 250,000 probes discover Zion and destroy it and its inhabitants. During this, Neo must decide how he can save Trinity from a dark fate in his dreams.The Animatrix (2003) - The Animatrix is a collection of several animated short films, detailing the backstory of the "Matrix" universe, and the original war between man and machines which led to the creation of the Matrix.A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003) - A family is haunted by the tragedies of deaths within the family. (you won't get this movie in first watch, you have to watch it twice and google for its explanation to appreciate the quality of this true psychological drama).The Matrix Revolutions (2003) - The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.Paycheck (2003) - What seemed like a breezy idea for an engineer to net him millions of dollars, leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why he's being chased.Oldboy (2003) - After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days. (2nd movie of vengeance trilogy, watch other also)Mystic river (2003) - With a childhood tragedy that overshadowed their lives, three men are reunited by circumstance when one loses a daughter.Identity (2003) - Stranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rainstorm, ten strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize that they're being killed off one by one.2002:Equilibrium (2002) - In a Fascist future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.Solaris (2002) - A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.Hero (2002) - A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.Minority Report (2002) - In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.Cypher (2002) - An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.Adaptation (2002) - A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean for the screen.2001:A Beautiful Mind (2001) - After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish.Das Experiment (2001) - For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence.Donnie Darko (2001) - A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident.Mulholland Dr. (2001) - After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. Must watch !Vanilla sky (2001) - A successful publisher finds his life taking a turn for the surreal after a car accident with a jaded lover.K-pax (2001) - Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.Waking life (2001) - A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.2000:Final Destination (2000) - After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one. (all its 5 parts)Memento (2000) - A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.Frequency (2000) An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.American Psycho (2000) - A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.Movies that screw your mind through simple yet thought provoking plots:Contact (1997)Into the Wild (2007)Never Let me Go (2010)Midnight in Paris (2013)Mary and Max (2009)Rahomon (1950)Before Trilogy (1995, 2004, 2013)The Mist (2007)If only (2004)The invention of lying (209)They Live (1988)Monty Python seriesRun Lola Run (2002)Shallow Grave (1994)Millions (2002)Pleasantville (1998)Now Some Really Good Old Mind-F*****g Classics:Alejandro Jodorowsky's Movies - probably the weirdest possible shit you will ever see in movies. The Holy Mountain (1973), El Topo (1970), Santa Sangre (1989) etc. Watch these at your own risk.Andrei Tarkovsky's Movies: Stalker (1979), Solaris (1972), Nostalghia (1983), The Mirror (1975), Andrei Rublev (1966) etc. [Philosophical Mind Twisting]Ingmar Bergman's Movies: Persona (1966), Wild Strawberries (1957), The Seventh Seal (1957), Fanny och Alexander (1982), Faith Trilogy etc. [Emotional Mind Twisting]David Lynch's Movies: Lost Highway (1997), Blue Velvet (1986), Eraserhead (1977), Mulholland Dr. (2001), Inland Empire (2006) etc.Alfred Hitchcock's Classics: Psycho (1960), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window (1958), Strangers on a Train (1951), Rope (1948), Dial M for Murder (1955) etc. [Suspense Mind Twisting]Some other popular ones: Fight Club (1999), The Matrix (1999), Twelve Monkeys (1995), Being John Malkovich (1999), The Truman Show (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), The Usual Suspects (1995), etc.Some lesser known ones: Wings of Desire (1987), Gattaca (1997), 8 1/2 (1963), Following (1998), The Game (1999), Primal Fear (1996), Arlington Road (1999), Total Recall (1990), The city of lost children (1995), Videodrome (1983), The Quiet Earth (1985), Pi (1998), Conspiracy Theory (1997), Face/Off (1997), Brazil (1985), Repulsion (1965).Directors: There are some great directors who make movies that most of the times screw our minds. start following them and and their movies. They are:Andrei TarkovskyIngmar BergmanDavid LynchAlejandro JodorowskyLars Von TrierSpike JonzeDavid CronenbergAlfred HitchcockShane CarruthTerry GilliamRichard LinklaterStanley KubrickDarren AronofskyRoman PolanskiTerrence MalickJean-Pierre JeunetFedrico FelliniLuis BuñuelAll these were restricted to the ones which I Know, If you want more refer to the link below :http://366weirdmovies.com/the-weird-movie-list/PS: I will keep on updating this list from time to time making it better and your suggestions are always welcome.

In my opinion, prostitution in the U.S. should be legal.*Let me first start by issuing the following disclaimer:I have never been with a prostitute. If legalized, I would not visit a prostitute. I gain nothing by writing this. I am not affiliated with any organization or group that advocates for prostitution.I understand that many women can be offended by this so I ask you to please proceed with an open mind before you kill me with comments below regarding the ills of human trafficking or the morality of it all. First, four background points:A short history of prostitution[1] in ancient Greece and the U.S.The Federal government has left the legality of prostitution to the individual states to decide if it should be legal or not within their individual borders.The state government of Nevada is the only state in the U.S. that has legal prostitution and has left the decision of legalization to each individual county (In Clark County, where Las Vegas is located, it is illegal) rather than a state decision of where and where it is not legal.A review of any Nevada county law or ordinance regarding prostitution will show strict statutes that must be followed. It is a regulated industry. One such statute is that street prostitution is illegal and that prostitution must only take place in a controlled environment called a brothel and not in a residential neighborhood, and not near a school.All workers in a brothel must be registered with the county.All brothels must be licensed.All workers must get tested for STDs and HIV once a week.Legalization significantly reduces human trafficking and street walkers.Legalization significantly reduces underage prostitutionLegalization significantly reduces forced prostitution.Legalization may make it easier for police to find underage and human trafficking (#7–9 above). The legalized brothels are controlled and works to help get women off the street and in a safe environment. Many more streetwalkers will be off the street resulting in fewer ad’s for a “date.” Police may have an easier time and more success in finding human trafficking, underage, and forced prostitution.Police man power for sex crimes and task forces can be reduced due to fewer street walkers, pimps, and John’s to arrest, allowing the police to redirect more availability to more serious crimes .The courts will have fewer prostitution cases to process resulting in other cases being heard and resolved more quickly.Public defenders will have a lighter case load allowing them to spend more time on other, more serious defendants.Legalization significantly reduces men having to be concerned about arrest and having their lives and reputations destroyed.Men (customers) will be safer. No more driving to the “bad” part of town, risking getting robbed, assaulted, or ripped off by a worker.Studies that compare indoor prostitutes (as opposed to street walkers) with non-prostitutes find that they have similar levels of self-esteem, physical health, and mental health. Many indoor prostitutes even report a rise in self-esteem after they begin their indoor work (Weitzer, 2012).Kingley Davis, theorized that prostitution lowers the divorce rate. He reasoned that many married men are unhappy with their sex life with their wives. If they do not think this situation can improve, some men start an affair with another woman and may fall in love with that woman, threatening these men’s marriages. (Kingsley Davis was was an internationally recognized American sociologist identified by the American Philosophical Society as one of the most outstanding social scientists of the twentieth century.)Legalization significantly reduces the acts occurring in seedy motels and the activity that is seen around those neighborhoods.Legalization significantly reduces drug use. A brothel is a controlled environment where no such activity is tolerated.Legalization significantly reduces any guilt or embarrassment by either of the two parties involved.It creates a safe environment for the workers.All brothels are regulated and most follow strict code adherenceAll prostitutes must be tested for STD, HIV, etc once a week (Nevada has not recorded a single case of HIV in a brothel since legalizing Prostitution.)Condoms must be used. There is no option.The women can always choose to not participate with a customer if she does not want to do what the customer wants to do. The customer can choose another partner.All prices of all sex acts are clearly posted and/or menu’s are provided. No negotiations.Brothels provide a clean & safe environment for all parties involved.Creates a new source of tax revenue.“Let’s assume that 50 million acts of prostitution occur annually in the United States (it is closer to 70 million), and that each of these acts costs an average $30. Putting these numbers together, prostitutes receive $1.5 billion annually in income. If they paid about one-third of this amount (admittedly a rough estimate) in payroll taxes, the revenue of state and federal governments would increase by $500 million.” (resource)Removes “Red Light Districts” and moves everything into a controlled environment.Prostitution was legal in the U.S. up until 100 years ago (1920) when it became illegal due to the religious moral reasons. Are we still making laws based on religious reasons?Prostitution has long been illegal due to moral reasons. To that point consider this:Who is to say what is and is not moral in this day and age? Homosexuality, black/white relationships, and sodomy were all once illegal.Sodomy laws in the United States, were inherited from British criminal laws with roots in the Christian religion. Christian religion no longer dictates U.S. law and is a violation of separation of church and state.If we follow British rule of law (which is what U.S laws are based upon), prostitution is legal. Therefore, American law should follow, right? (I personally do not agree on this point.) There are certain restrictions however.In the case, Lawrence v Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), the U.S. Supreme court, in a 6–3 decision, struck down Texas State law (and therefore 13 other states) that made Sodomy illegal between consenting adults. This is significant because Lawrence v Texas overruled a previous Supreme Court decision, Bowers v. Hardwick in 1986 that found a Georgia statute banning sodomy, was valid because the Constitution did not apply to constitutional protection of sexual privacy. By reversing the 1986 decision, the Court ruled that intimate consensual sexual conduct was part of the liberty protected by substantive due process under the 14th Amendment.Legalizing Prostitution would give the workers a right to unionize and be entitled to certain protections.The spread of STD’s and HIV could be significantly reduced (condom use).Worker injury (whatever that might be) would be covered under OSHA.Workers could possible be entitled to benefits such as sick time, paid time off, and even vacation and retirement planning.Workers would receive health benefits.Strip Clubs are legal and the activity in these clubs comes very close to a brothel. Why is it permissible to watch a woman (of her own free will) remove all her clothing in public and dance naked for money but she cannot, of her own free will, have human contact of her own free will.Two (or more) consenting adults, agree to have sex with each other, and get paid to have sex with each other. That’s prostitution, right? No, there is a loophole. XXX rated movies. These actors get paid to have sex but because they are being filmed for commercial purposes and claim it as an art form, then that’s ok, They are not breaking the law. Hmmm…Roe v. Wade. This might be a stretch but Roe v Wade gives a woman the right to choose what happens to her body and focuses on reproductive rights. It mentions personal autonomy. Personal autonomy is a key provision here. Can such an argument be referenced for what a woman decides to do with her body, such as participating in prostitution? (For more on personal autonomy, see Part IV of this John Marshall Law Review article. See also this Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository article.)“Corruption would be rampant.” This is a baseless statement. Lets be realistic. There is corruption with every single job on the planet including, Police, Politicians, Priests (and other religions), Judges, teachers, social workers, Stock Market (money managers), etc. Are all priests, police, or teachers bad? Of course not. The majority of all workers and professionals are good, honest, hardworking people. Just because a woman is a prostitute does not make her a bad person. I cannot say why a woman would want or need to do this sort of work, but the reason is not for any of us to judgeA U.N. report found "very low" rates of sexually transmitted infections among the sex workers of New Zealand, a country whose total decriminalization of prostitution many advocates consider to be the gold standard in sex work policy. NZ - it's a great place to be a prostituteFormer US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders thinks it makes no sense to ban prostitution simply because it objectifies women: “Why are we so upset about sex workers selling sexual acts to consenting adults?” she asks. “We say that they are selling their bodies, but how different is that from what athletes do? They’re selling their bodies. Models? They’re selling their bodies. Actors? They’re selling their bodies.”Recently, in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, an appeals judge asked, why it should be “illegal to sell something that’s legal to give away?” Other judges have said the 14th amendment and Lawrence v. Texas does not apply to Prostitution because that is not what those who wrote the 14th amendment nor the Supreme Court Justices had in mind. Really? How is that known? The ruling references Personal Autonomy.Prostitution can be a controlled and regulated industry. Without regulations, we get what we have today….street walkers, drug addicts, abused women etc. This profession is known as the worlds oldest profession. It’s not, nor will it ever, go away. It was completely legal in all the U.S. until only 1920.We can waste tax payer money by continuing sting operations, arresting offenders who will only turn around and go right back to the street after posting bond or, we can provide a safe and regulated place for all involved and redirect police resources to truly hurtful and dangerous crimes.I cannot imagine anyone who would rather drive to a seedy part of town, risk arrest, getting robbed, contracting an STD, and embarrassment by arrest, versus going to a place that does not hide the truth and provides safety for all parties.I’m not an attorney or an advocate, but in my eyes, the only reasons prostitution is illegal is because nobody is willing to write the rules and because of those who define morality. Bt who defines morality? Does your morality have to be my morality? It is not the same thing to all people. I guess that falls to the court system…the same court that once outlawed sodomy, sex between two males, and black/white sex.In my opinion, the decision to have sex between two consenting adults, whether it be for money, food, or Winnie the Pooh stickers, is and should be, between the adults involved. There needs to be, like all other legal matters, rules and restrictions put into place to protect everyone. And no need to reinvent the wheel. We can use New Zealand, Amsterdam, and Nevada as the blueprint for policy. All objections such as STD’s, HIV, corruption, exploitation, etc, are really just from people who object to the activity and have no desire to make it legal and they are absolutely entitled to their opinion, but I don’t care for alcohol and there are some religions that forbid drinking it, but that does not mean we should outlaw alcohol due to moral and religious beliefs? We already tried that in the U.S. and it failed miserably, in part because all kinds of mobs and corruption materialized. Al Capone made his living from running illegal moonshine and secret “speakeasy’s.” Those speakeasy’s and running moonshine (all the illegal activity) vanished right after alcohol was legalized again.Human nature is such that if we want something bad enough, we will find a way to get it. That is why there is and has always been prostitution. We’ve legalized marijuana, alcohol, same sex marriage, abortions, segregation, sodomy, and so many other “once illegal” activities. The illegal fixation on prostitution pales in comparison to the benefits for all parties involved including the workers, the customers, the tax payers, the government, and the public at large.(Reed Saxon/AP)EDIT: The word. “Eliminates” used in my opinion are too definitive as Sean Patrick points out in his comment below. I agree. I am changing the word to “reduces.” Also, I added a TON more points to and links. My apologies to the first 18K readers who did not read this revised version that has more clarity.Edit #2:Human Trafficking has become a very hot topic lately which has created many non-profit organizations to help those who are involuntarily forced into being a “sex slave” with little hope of escape. I fully support & agree with such organizations to the point that modern day slavery of any type should not and can not be tolerated anywhere, in any country. While these organizations are doing a terrific service by building awareness of a problem that needs addressing, I do not agree with everything they advocate, specifically their attempt to keep prostitution illegal and that it is bad for everyone everywhere. There is research, commissioned by Human Trafficking groups, that show even legalized prostitution in Nevada is detrimental and is known to have forced labor and so I want to address that concern, that legalizing will not put an end to human trafficking and actually increases human trafficking (this is what some research reporting has concluded).First, everyone should always be wary of any research commissioned by groups that want to prove their point as valid. It almost goes without saying that these groups would bury the report if the research showed the opposite of what they theorize and want others to read.Second, brothels are regulated in Nevada and should be heavily regulated. Las Vegas does a pretty good job of regulating anyone working in a gaming environment by requiring every worker to obtain and carry a “Sheriff’s card” (also called a Work Card.)This card can only be obtained by a person who is sponsored by an employer who has agreed to hire them. You cannot obtain a card before being employed, only after being offered a job by an employer. This does not completely stop problems but certainly makes things more difficult for the illegal activity to occur. In fact, Las Vegas already requires that those working in brothels have such a card even though prostitution is illegal in Clark County (where Las Vegas is located.)As you can see from the following sample, the questions are specific and more detailed questions can be added including a private, in-person interview with a deputy or agent who can ask the worker specific questions such as “Are you being forced into this work?” “Do you need help with an addiction?” “Why have you chosen to do this work?” “Has anyone threatened your safety if you do not obtain this card or work in the profession?” The workers can be required to renew the cards annually with an interview.Here is a sample application for a Sheriff’s card.https://www.lvmpd.com/en-us/Documents/SampleWorkCardApplication.pdfWith proper regulations, many concerns are addressed and for those who continue to participate in trafficking, pimping and smuggling of humans, the penalties should be made more severe and as severe as possible.————————————————————————-Footnotes and Further Reading that might apply to this opinion:Federal MaterialSearch U.S. Supreme Court DecisionsSearch U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals DecisionsSearch LII Preview/ Analyses of Supreme Court Cases1st Amendment to U.S. Constitution4th and 5th Amendments to U.S. Constitution14th Amendment to U.S. ConstitutionSearch the Annotated Constitution of the United StatesU.S. Supreme Court: Historic Right of Privacy-Personal Autonomy DecisionsGriswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965)Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557 (1969)Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton, 413 U.S. 49 (1973)Whalen v. Roe, 429 U.S. 589 (1977)Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986)Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992)Lawrence v. Texas(2003)State Judicial DecisionsN.Y. Court of Appeals:Commentary from liibulletin-nySearch N.Y. Court of Appeals DecisionsAppellate Decisions from Other StatesOther ReferencesGood Starting Point, including a short history of Prostitution and the following references:Turkington & Allen-Castellitto Privacy Law: Cases & Materials, West Group (2002)Barry, K. (1996). The prostitution of sexuality. New York, NY: New York University Press.Brewer, D. D., Potterat, J. J., Garrett, S. B., Muth, S. Q., John M. Roberts, J., Kasprzyk, D., et al. (2000). Prostitution and the sex discrepancy in reported number of sexual partners. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97, 12385–12388.Bullough, V. L., & Bullough, B. (1977). Sin, sickness, and sanity: A history of sexual attitudes. New York, NY: New American Library.Bullough, V. L., & Bullough, B. (1987). Women and prostitution: A social history. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus.Clinard, M. B., & Meier, R. F. (2011). Sociology of deviant behavior (14th ed.). Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace.Davis, K. (1937). The sociology of prostitution. American Sociological Review, 2, 744–755.Federal Bureau of Investigation. (2011). Crime in the United States, 2010. Washington, DC: Author.McCaslin, J. (1999, October 13). Vaginal politics. Washington Times, p. A8.Meier, R. F., & Geis, G. (2007). Criminal justice and moral issues. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.Ordway, R. (1995, May 26). Relaxation spas perplex officials. The Bangor Daily News, p. 1.Ringdal, N. J. (2004). Love for sale: A world history of prostitution (R. Daly, Trans.). New York, NY: Grove Press.Rosen, R. (1983). The lost sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900–1918. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.Stanford, S. (1966). The lady of the house. New York, NY: G. P. Putnam.Weitzer, R. (2009). Sociology of sex work. Annual Review of Sociology, 35(0360-0572, 0360-0572), 213–234.Weitzer, R. (2011). Legalizing prostitution: From illicit vice to lawful business. New York, NY: New York University Press.Weitzer, R. (2012). Prostitution: Facts and fictions. In D. Hartmann & C. Uggen (Eds.), The Contexts reader (pp. 223–230). New York, NY: W. W. Norton.Footnotes[1] Social Problems: Continuity and Change

This is an exceedingly important question, in my mind. I would like to note that not all drug use stories and outcomes are bad. Mine is one of those.My very earliest memories of recognizing a drug was when I had little white candy cigarettes to match the real ones my mom and dad smoked. I was five and this was 1967, living in the Pacific Northwest. The Surgeon General’s warning on the cigarette packages was only three years old at the time. I would notice sometime later that my mom and grandmother would always hide their cigarettes whenever a picture was taken of them. I found this curious then and still do, because being young and hip, they rarely, if ever, presented a false front, however minor. Nobody at that time even heard of secondhand smoke. My parents, slaves to their cigarettes, usually cracked the window of the car to spare us kids. I hope it worked. Later in life, i would walk into a dance nightclub (usually playing Michael Jackson's album cuts from Thriller, intensely popular at the time), and literally (?) walk into a wall of smoke of the worst kind: cigarette.My mom would die early, despite quitting smoking more than 25 years previously, and leading an otherwise healthy life (she never seemed to get sick), at the same time as ABC newsman Peter Jennings, and from the same cause: small cell lung cancer. My grandmother, also a heavy smoker for a much longer time, died in old age of Alzheimer's. Go figure. As you can imagine, I take a very dim view of tobacco companies and everyone who supported them, particularly lawyers and politicians. In light of what they knew, I think a Nuremberg style trial should take place. And all those who got rich off of this industry should forfeit their profits to charitable organizations dealing with the aftermath. I'm just saying. (You can call me a dreamer, but I'm not the only one…)In the third grade (circa 1970) two drug related things happened. The first was I was offered to smoke cigarettes by the neighborhood kids in the apartment complex in the Bay Area, where I was living during the early Seventies. We went to a drainage pipe area, about five of us, boys and girls, hidden from adult eyes. I tried to smoke these cigarettes. Really, for about two weeks of this, I tried. I simply didn't get the attraction of these things, despite just about everybody in my world was and had been smoking them. I preferred the candy cigarettes to these. And despite any moral considerations (at age 8?), I also didn't respond to the peer pressure. This, perhaps, is the first indication of my “maverick” independence which would blossom as the years passed. I never once was tempted to try cigarettes again, to this day.The second thing that happened was that the same group of friends were examining a small open box of sugar cubes (no doubt C&H), some of which was colored yellow. As we stared at the box in the parking lot, some adults walked up. They were clearly agitated. They said it was drugs. DRUGS. That's the first time I encountered the concept of “street" drugs (in this case, quite literally). Clearly, I didn't know what they were talking about. But this was a Bay Area town just as the public perception of the “hippie explosion” was threatening “our" way of life, and fear, then as now, was rampant in the “straight” world. These were my preteen years and I was a young sprout in a neighborhood of hippies and Hell’s Angels characters. (My dad told me not to worry about them as they didn't fight in their own neighborhood. Don't know if this was good advice or not, but I didn't worry about them.)The next time I became conscious of drugs was watching my father and his father drink alcohol. Personally, I never tried alcohol in any serious way until I attended college. My mother rarely, if ever, got drunk, although she imbibed on a regular basis in those years in social settings. My grandmother (same as the one I mentioned above) and her husband, my grandfather (father's side) both drank in moderation, although they purchased in bulk, often going to an Indian Reservation for cigarettes (no tax, I think) and across the border in Canada for whisky and 222 pills (i.e. Tylenol with codeine, not available over the counter in Washington state). They consumed their drinks, wet bar style, while playing Bridge (or maybe Yahtzee) with their friends after a hard day's work, or a day spent tending their garden. Normal middle-class drinking behavior, I would think.None of this was true for my dad. He started drinking beer in high school (circa 1956) and never stopped until his death at 64, of heart complications exacerbated by continuous alcoholism and nicotine addiction. He was always proud of the fact that he never drank hard liquor, and he didn't, ever. He was under the impression that drinking beer was less of a problem. (An aside, I mentioned at the start that this was not a drug horror story, but I meant that in relation to me, not those I loved around me.) He died only a year after my mom, so there may be a bit of broken heart syndrome there.My dad's alcoholism became obvious to me when I was in high school (circa 1977) and my parents were obviously not getting along well, due to my dad's personality change (not for the better) after drinking. By then, I was pretty independent, attending junior college part time as part of my high school curriculum. My friends were almost all older than I, and I related to them more as I was disengaging from my parents, which we must all do. My sister, three years younger, was not so lucky. She turned out fine, but having your parents constantly on the edge of divorce is not a pleasant atmosphere. The effects of alcoholism in nuclear family dynamics is well known by now, so I'll not elaborate here. Suffice to say, my (psychologically/emotionally) abused mother broke free, with much pain and introspection, during the following decade. She lived out the rest of her (unnaturally shortened) life quite happily. So too is my sister now.As you may have noticed by this time, I've only really talked about drug use in my life as it affected me indirectly, which is certainly part of any drug use story. But now i will move into personal experience and what motivated me to take drugs.I will focus here on the drug of my choice, of which I can draw from my own experiences, a drug that goes by many names, but I always knew it as pot, so that's what I'll call it here. The year is 1978, and I am attending a high school in the Sierra Nevada's above Sacramento, known variously to us as Sac, Sacratomato, or just the flatlanders. I had the dubious fortune to look 3 years younger than my classmates (which doesn't impress the girls, by the way) and to think 3 years older (which did impress some girls, but not enough, alas.) It was while attending the local community college (a 3 hour course a day on communication theory that counted as English credits in high school) that my classmates introduced me to pot. In no time at all I was nearly arrested during our town's “Operation Clean Sweep” which was designed to hassle the cars cruising on main street, ala American Graffiti. I was newly licensed, and driving my dad's International Harvester 4x4 with pizza-cutter tires. The cops wanted to get us off the streets, which were crowded mainly by Toyota Land Cruisers, CJ5 Jeeps, Willie's, and an occasional gold and black Trans-am, no doubt from the flat lands. This night, soon after learning to drive and also soon after my very first joint, I exited a well-lit parking lot onto the well-lit main street, only to see the local police cruiser actually spin a 180, tires smoking, and train all of his lights on me, red lights flashing, stopping all traffic on main street, ordering my friend and I out of the car. BUSTED!Fortunately, my friend had a small pipe that we had just used in his quite well padded winter coat. The cops searched the glove box as I was getting the registration, telling me the reason he stopped me was because I hadn't turned on my headlights AS I WAS exiting the parking lot. Long story short, they didn't find anything on us, and my breath and eyes must have been okay, and we were “let go" and warned never to return on Saturday nights. Right. Their primary mission was accomplished.You might be tempted to believe that I might have paused because of this first experience. I did pause sometime after that only because I would move back to Southern California to go to college and thereby lost my connections. It would not be until fours later, after college, that I would take up pot on a regular basis again. This would be do mostly due to financial considerations while attending college. Even in 1980, college texts were prohibitively expensive, and without family financial support it was all I could do to live.During those college years I did drink alcohol but I felt poorly if I drank too much, so I didn't. I turned 21 and was let into the nightclubs (despite my young appearance) where I preferred to drink Long Island Ice Teas ($5 a pop, even then) because it didn't taste much like alcohol and I can tolerate tequila best of all. Also, nightclub dancing was intensely popular back then, and alcohol didn't have much effect on me as a result of the exercise, I surmise.So what attracted me to pot where cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine, and meth had failed to impress me? Not peer pressure, as I was relatively immune to that all my life. To answer this question, one has to consider my normal state of mind. As I detail quite extensively in my Quora post Mark Brennan's answer to What are the best books about The Beatles?, it was the music that got me. And that music was largely (and still is) so influential in my personal development from age 2.This music, particularly their 1966-1967 period (Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour), is the jumping off point for my whole life since then. You might, as I do, classify this as “psychedelia." And it’s important to remember, and easy to forget, that most people buying Beatles records were not using pot or LSD. But the psychedelic experience, for those attuned to it, particularly the young adolescent, comes through loud and clear without any experience with drug use. That these recordings were inspired by psychedelic drugs, including pot (if you classify it so), does not imply that the average listener needed the same drugs to enjoy it. (But, I admit, it helps a lot to do so.)So now we are coming to the crux of the matter, in my personal case. A psychologist (particularly of the behavioral kind) might argue that i was conditioned by the music I was instinctively responding to which caused me to be receptive to the pot experience later in life. (Keep in mind that correlation does not prove causation.)John Lennon expressed this when he said that as a five year old, the surrealism of Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass was for him, reality. It's been said that psychedelics make you more of who you are. John was clearly channeling his inner childhood into a song like I Am the Walrus, which is often said to be LSD inspired. But I would say that's true only inasmuch as acid opened his door of perception into a childhood fantasy-land he was intimately familiar with. But unless one gets the wrong idea that a price won't be paid for grasping at the experience of past innocence through the use of LSD, John constantly reminds us in the song that he's crying. Be forewarned, this type of adventuring carries it's own risks. (Again, see my earlier mentioned post under Beatles books to read.)So, in my long and winding way, I'm saying that pot just agrees with me. Unlike any other drug I've tried, I just feel better when I'm high when I've made some time out of my schedule to relax. It's hard to appreciate being high if you're never sober to compare it to. To be awfully cliche, but true nevertheless, for me the realm of pleasurable experience is that old saying: Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll. Or if you want to be old school about it: Wine, Women, and Song. Clearly there's more to life than a hedonistic dive into the pleasures of this world (such as it is) but a life without some pleasurable experiences in it is hardly worth living.Our elders of old were right, from their point of view, that rock and roll and illegal drugs were subversive to society as they saw it. (Thank goodness, I say.)The whiskey-and-bridge routine of my grandparents were gone. The beer-and-football routine never appealed to me, and I didn't really relate to those (like my dad) for whom it did. Although I was too young to be directly involved in the protests of Vietnam War happening around me, this was certainly not the case when it came to the so-called War on Drugs. Like my hippie elder brothers and sisters, I became “radicalized" the more I learned about “real" history (Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Alfred McCoy, Gabriel Kolko).I graduated high school in 1980, and became eligible to vote in the Carter-Reagan election, thus beginning my lesser-of-two-evils voting pattern, which I'm beginning to doubt the wisdom of. This was the time of the resurgence of the latest generation of drug warriors, begun a century ago against immigrants and other lowlife, with the insane battle-cry of JUST SAY NO campaign against unapproved use of drugs. Hippies in those days (and still?) were not well regarded and were usually dismissed as anachronistic idealists who had probably sold-out to materialism and become yuppies. In the 50s, when students were often banned from reading books in school like The Catcher in the Rye, what do you suppose the kids wanted to read? It's such a simple concept, and I'm not sure why more people don't seem to realize it. I won't even mention the idiot DARE program they started back then. (Ooops! I just did.)So, in addition to the pleasures of pot, and the insights gained from the use of psychedelics, drug use has often been linked in defiance of what Holden Caulfield (you should know who he is) calls “phony" society. (Scary that Mark David Chapman had this on him while murdering John Lennon.) The Emperor (i.e. those in power) doesn't like it if we see him wearing no clothes. (“Even the President of the United States sometimes must stand naked.”) So it's complicated. LSD was outlawed in 1966 to protect the powerful from being exposed by a mass of “enlightened" individuals who can easily see the facade of political power, at least as they saw it. (How many gallons of LSD would it take to spike a municipal water reservoir to get a whole city high? This was a relevant question to the Chicago cops in 1968.)There are personal and societal reasons for all kinds of drug use. To prohibit research into any drug classified by the government (for political reasons) as Schedule I says much that should no longer be ignored. Much more needed is to be done.Like the kids of draft age in the 60s/70s, today the young have skin in the game. Our society's attitude toward climate change alone, because of the speed of its development, requires a major shift in attitudes similar to the post Vietnam War/Watergate, Church Hearings realignment of conventional thought in 1975. (“They say your early ending was all wrong. For the most part they're right, but look how they all got strong.”)The same mentality warp of anti-communism in the 50s, anti-counter-culturalism in the 60s, and anti-everything-else-ism since then, we need a more coherent attitude toward the use of drugs. Realizing that “war" is a bad metaphor to begin with, we might move forward by abandoning it.Basically, I feel that the prototypical hippies, aka the San Francisco Diggers (such as actor Peter Coyote), somewhat before my time, were right in their overall attitudes of more than 50 years ago. Although the founding hippie ideals were soon (too soon) co-opted by industry, to be packaged and sold as fashion and thereby subsequently diluted by being the “devoted son of mass media." This resulted in the Death of Hippie parade in the Haight following the summer of love. So it didn’t last long, and the moved out of the city as a result, for the most part.I think the original hippie/beatnik/romantic ideal is not only worth rekindling, but our planetary survival as a human species (and much else) depends on it. There's hope (maybe) in the current younger generation like we had in the 60s, the stakes being so high and all. (“Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.”)I'm proud now to have stuck it out over the years, remaining true to my vision, in the face of adversity (and maybe some silent ridicule) in times past. Being called a “dope smoking hippie,” which, truth to tell, was never said to me, isn’t such a derogatory term anymore. (Or is it? Depends on the circle you run in. South Park's Eric Cartman doesn’t seem to think so, but what does he know?)To be in bed with a mellow buzz, whilst listening to The Dark Side of the Moon, and being held by a loved one is my idea of heaven.For the most part doing this is free, once having basic your basic needs met (which is no small feat nowadays). And such pleasures in life don’t even leave a large carbon footprint. What a life!I bet you didn't think I'd end up here when I started out, but there it is. A good question sometimes deserves a detailed answer.Good luck to you. Practice random kindness. Be here now…RELATED QUESTIONSMark Brennan's answer to Why did The Beatles gain such widespread popularity?Mark Brennan's answer to What Beatles song has the best lyrics?Mark Brennan's answer to What are the best books about The Beatles?