MSNBC’s Smerconish: It’s Time To Legalize Prostitution

MSNBC’s Michael Smerconish Fawns over Spitzer and Pushes for Legalization of Prostitution (NewsBusters)

While serving as guest host of Tuesday's Hardball, Michael Smerconish closed the program by pushing for a legalization of prostitution.  He claimed not to see anything wrong with women selling their bodies for money, calling it “the private affairs of consenting adults.” It's no coincidence that Smerconish's defense of the sex trade came just two days after gushing over prostitution patron Eliot Spitzer and his "unwarranted" resignation as governor.

In his defense of prostitution, Smerconish made two arguments for its legalization. First, he argued that it would be financially profitable for the government to “bring the world’s oldest profession aboveboard” and allow it to be considered a taxable income. This legalization would also allow for the communities to “clean up the trade,” he argued.

The second reason he gave for his promotion of prostitution was that “some among us are never going to find companionship for a variety of reasons” and “it can’t be healthy for some people to … have their personal expectations go unfulfilled.” Therefore, Mr. Smerconish believes that people have the right to have their sexual tensions relieved in our sex-saturated culture, and if they cannot find it through a personal relationship, we should have the ability to pay a woman or man to provide that service for them.