[lbo-talk] Stigma, Law, Sex, and Drugs

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Stigma and illegality probably raise prices of commodified 
recreational sex and drugs higher, by decreasing their supply, than 
in a hypothetical free market in them, because there are more stigma 
and legal penalties attached to sellers than buyers in most cases 
(the exception being adult men who buy sexual service of underage 
boys, unless they do so overseas).  The irony is that moralists who 
disapprove of drug use and sex work do more to make the sex and drug 
industries profitable than libertarians who would treat them just 
like any other form of commodity.
-- 
Yoshie

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