Should Prostitution Be Legal?

“Should prostitution be legal… and could it actually save society?”That’s the provocative question at the heart of this bold and thought-provoking episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where the crew dives headfirst into one of the most controversial conversations of the day. Join hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they unpack a viral take from media personality Joy Taylor, who claims that male loneliness is a “massive problem” and that legalizing prostitution could be the solution. What follows is a surprisingly nuanced, often hilarious, and occasionally jaw-dropping discussion about vice, regulation, and the unintended consequences of outlawing human behavior.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Set right.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Joey Taylor is a media personality. She used to do
radio in Miami and she is on FS one for
a long time. She's the brother of the sister of
former Dolphins defensive n Jason Taylor. And she's got been
in some involved in some lawsuits. There's been a lot
of stuff going. She's been in the news a lot lately.

(00:30):
She's got tons of platforms though, and on one of
her podcasts she said this, I.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Think that male loneliness is a massive problem. I think
non getting male lonelies.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
That's pea getting Okay, non pa getting.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Non getting male lonelies are deteriorating society. I think it's
a massive problem. What do you think that one. I
think we should legalize prostitution. Okay, I have been standing
on this for decades and I think that the prostitution
should be legalized. Okay, they will never do this, but
that I think would make it. It would be a
massive solve.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Then the skin poll question of the day on this Monday,
should prostitution be legal?

Speaker 4 (01:05):
I think absolutely it should.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
So it's complicated. I mean, I hate to be a
rational bird, but I can see arguments for both sides
because it leads to so much human trafficking and miners
and you know, which is so terrible. I don't know
how that would impact it.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
The concept behind it, whether or not it's true, is
that all of that exists because of the black market.
The concept behind it is that if you made it
legal and regulated it, you could cut down on that.
For example, heroin will never be legal, we know that,
but the idea is that can you. So one of
the things that led to the rise of the Mafia

(01:47):
was alcohol being illegal. Like when you watch every movie
about the Mafia in the thirties and forties, they're trafficking
alcohol because it was illegal. So it creates a black market.
So the idea is that it was legalized and regulated,
and there's all the like been an ideal with this
with roller Town beer works or certain things we can't
say on the air because it's regulated. So the idea
is that if you had something that by the way,

(02:09):
that's in yes, if you had the concept of something
is a quote unquote vice, gambling, alcohol, drugs. I mean,
I think you could even argue in some cases food, right,
if something is a vice, then you regulated. The idea
is that you can get something a little more under control.

(02:29):
And so there was time when there there was prostitution,
but it was wild West, and so there was a
rise of STDs. But if you had it regulated out
of like it is legal in what is it in Vegas?
Where it's like what's name of that town where the
cat ranch whatever?

Speaker 5 (02:45):
It's right, the place you go to is Bangkok though
that's like another side of that that's unregulated, that's wild.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
But the idea is that if you regulate it, then
you could cut down on STDs, you could cut down
on trafficking, and you could talk about what Joy Taylor's
talking about, which is having people have a place to go.
She's saying their loneliness manifests itself in the form of
violence and things like you seeing your.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Take, I was just trying to remember that ranch. I
think it's the bunny funny money just like that. I
was the one who remembered that.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
But it it's outside of Vegas. I know you're trying.
It's a different reno or I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
You could go the opposite way though, like it could
make all those things worse if you legalize it, right,
because people are trying to make a ton of money,
because they know it's a good market, and so they're
just grabbing women wherever they find them.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Well, if it's regulated, they're not going to have people trafficked,
like the idea you have trafficking now because it's unregulating.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeah, I get that, but I just could go the
other way.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I would need to know more about the crevices of
an industry before I had an opinion. So props to
you off for having.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
A heart opinion. I don't have a heart opinion. Yeah,
thank you, Kevin.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
Coming up next a deadly be attack in Texas, and
that's gonna be a good tease forever.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
That's next.