It is almost counterintuitive that many Caribbean countries have legalized the possession and use of marijuana or sex of any kind among consenting adults but nearly all have not formally legalized prostitution, the oldest profession.
Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Vincent, also Trinidad and Tobago, have all banned same-sex acts and conversely legalized cannabis, with the exception of Grenada which is moving in that direction. It is as if to say, same-sex approval is too far, amid clouds of ganja smoke for these select few, one of whom has approved targeted assassinations.
The other Caribbean countries approved same-sex coupling from as long ago as a few centuries like Haiti and later for the other European colonies. The British Overseas Territories were directed by their English overlord in 2001 to allow homosexuality. These self-same forced liberalizations have not gone as far as legalizing weed because their British feudal leaders have not legalized ganja themselves. A part of the colonial deal is that they become the moral authority even if it makes a nonsense of an entire country’s beliefs, cultural history, or otherwise.
All for one and one for all, not.
The bizarre and conflicting decisions on same-sex among adults and smoking ganja have missed one other prohibited adult behavior, prostitution. Almost entirely criminalized in the Caribbean except the Dutch Caribbean, but rarely enforced, prostitution is widely practiced in many levels of our societies and in many ways. From the overt or street purveyors of sex to arranged unions based on financial transactions, some lasting years. All strictly prohibited and well known within all Caribbean societies.
Prostitution is a kind of sex among consenting adults that is legal in the United Kingdom with some restrictions on public places and pimping.
Having forced legal homosexuality on many unwilling British Overseas Territories it would be a small step to allow prostitution in these colonies to legitimize many working girls and guys to pursue their vocations in all levels of society, but not on the street or with pimps. Behind closed doors or closets and all that.
It would be a forward-thinking step that might find motherland approval starting with those that have legalized same-sex unions by force. Then others could follow or mirror their liberal views on marijuana and maritime sicarios.
Do as I say not as I do.
Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_the_Caribbean
https://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/2930/prostitution_fact_sheet.pdf
Peter Polack is a former criminal lawyer from the Cayman Islands for several decades. His books are The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War: South Africa vs. Cuba in the Angolan Civil War (2013), Jamaica, The Land of Film (2017), and Guerrilla Warfare: Kings of Revolution (2019). He was a contributor to Encyclopedia of Warfare (2013). His latest book is a compendium of Russian espionage activities with almost five hundred Soviet spies expelled from nearly 100 countries worldwide 1940–88.
His views are his own.
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Well said..Tired pay fuh narny and feel like I am doing something wrong.
Not a bad idea at all. Prostitution is legalized in Curacao. There is a certain gated area well fenced, proper housing, and all Prostitution take place on that compound alone. There are rules and regulations that all prostitutes must abide with.
If they want to push and force LGBT down people throat by force, why not legalized prosecution. Legalizing prostitution is far better than Legalizing Marihuana. Prostitution and LGBT are all abomination in the site of God but if they crazy enough to Legalized LGBT and decrimilized Marihuana, I think they should Legalized prostitution between two consenting adults and stop choosing who to sex who
Plenty women in Antigua working selling front cuase they love “things” and their eyes long. They have jobs but squander their money to keep up with the now a days trends and love to compete to give impression. They love seek out money man too and dont know about true love!!