The worlds oldest profession

1) What are your feelings about prostitution/sex work ? You may choose multiple responses.

	16% (13)	1) It's immoral
	18% (15)	2) It is exploitative
	16% (13)	3) It encourages other crime and ruins the neighborhood
	13% (11)	4) Neutral
	35% (28)	5) We are all prostitutes because we all sell ourselves for something
	60% (48)	6) Nothing is wrong with prostitution. It is just a mutually beneficial exchange of money and service
	70% (56)	7) If it were legal, most of the problems that accompany it would not be as bad
	7% (6)	8) Other
	5% (4)	9) Not sure

79 voters have answered this question.

2) If prostitution were legal and regulated, do you think problems like human trafficking and abuse would get better or worse?

	10% (8)	1) There would be more of these problems
	69% (55)	2) There would be less of these problems
	17% (14)	3) Not sure
	2% (2)	4) Other

79 voters have answered this question.

3) If prostitution were legal and regulated, do you think STD's would go up or down?

	11% (9)	1) Up because more people would see prostitutes
	74% (57)	2) Down because prostitutes and their clients would be more likely to get tested and treated for STD's
	0% (0)	3) Other
	14% (11)	4) Not sure

77 voters have answered this question.

4) Are most prostitutes doing it by choice or because they are forced into it?

	53% (42)	1) By choice
	26% (21)	2) Coerced into it
	48% (38)	3) No other alternative economically
	11% (9)	4) Other
	15% (12)	5) Not sure

79 voters have answered this question.

5) Have you ever been a prostitute/sex worker? (don't worry. I don't know who you are, and couldn't care less if I did)

	17% (14)	1) Yes
	82% (65)	2) No

79 voters have answered this question.

6) If yes on the last question, did you do it by choice, were you coerced, or did you do it because of economic necessity?

	18% (4)	1) By choice (I'm male)
	36% (8)	2) By choice (I'm female)
	0% (0)	3) I was coerced(I'm male)
	4% (1)	4) I was coerced (I'm female)
	0% (0)	5) Economic necessity (I'm male)
	9% (2)	6) Economic necessity (I'm female)
	27% (6)	7) Other
	4% (1)	8) Not sure

22 voters have answered this question.

7) Have you ever hired a prostitute/sex worker? (again, I don't know who you are, and wouldn't care either way if I did)

	31% (24)	1) Yes
	68% (53)	2) No

77 voters have answered this question.

8) If yes on 7, how did you treat that person?

	0% (0)	1) Very badly. She/he is just a stupid ho!
	12% (4)	2) Neither good nor bad. It is what it is.
	33% (11)	3) With respect, but I didn't go out of my way
	21% (7)	4) I spoiled him/her
	0% (0)	5) Badly only because I was treated badly
	9% (3)	6) Good only because I was treated well
	15% (5)	7) Other
	9% (3)	8) Not sure

33 voters have answered this question.

9) Please check every box that you agree with.

	77% (61)	1) Prostitution is illegal mostly due to puritanical uptightness
	68% (54)	2) Too much of our tax money and police resources are being used on fighting prostitution
	60% (48)	3) We always seem to be paying for sex, so what's the differance?
	59% (47)	4) There should be a major distinction between prostitution by choice and that which is not, and these should be dealt with very differantly
	25% (20)	5) Most prostitutes do drugs
	11% (9)	6) Most prostitutes are attractive
	6% (5)	7) Most prostitutes are smart
	8% (7)	8) Honey!....I'm a praaahstitute!!!
	22% (18)	9) Prostitution contributes to adultery and breaks up marraiges
	18% (15)	10) Prostitution is immoral
	16% (13)	11) Prostitution encourages/goes hand in hand with drug trafficking
	58% (46)	12) Many women are abused in the sex work industry
	15% (12)	13) Other
	0% (0)	14) Not sure

79 voters have answered this question.

10) Should "family values" Republicans who are caught with prostitutes be held up to the same standards as the rest of us?

	82% (63)	1) Yes.
	2% (2)	2) No. We should just do as they say and not as they do.
	6% (5)	3) Other
	7% (6)	4) Not sure

76 voters have answered this question.