Can You Marry A Prostitute?

It depends on your definition of who a prostitute really is? Is a prostitute a person that offers "Sexual Services" for financial or other compensation....or...or a person that plays around indiscriminately.
Cos I believe theres a little prostitute in everyone. So let everyone check themselves b4 they cast the first stone.

Back to the question. I dunno methinks if she worth it and my family dosent know i just might. 

@ pendelite
I finally found time to answer your post.

You are reasoning from a position that prostitutes, by definition, do not value their bodies and themselves as human beings. It may be so that many in society do look upon prostitutes as being morally deprived, but that does not need to be so. It's only because you attach that specific value to your sexuality that you think that hiring out your sexuality is by nature a bad choice. People that work as janitors, supermarket clerks, parking guards and the like are not living up their potential as human beings either, yet they are not scoffed at like prostitutes.
This is a double standard that is actually very discriminatory.

If you could give empirical evidence of that fact and establish causation between the act of prostitution and those prostitutes returing to their former activities, please do so. Mind you, correlation does not equal causation. Also please ensure that you have a representative data set.
If you cannot provide the above, your statement is merely an anecdotal opinion, not an established fact.

All payed labour is giving yourself up for material gain. Why single out prostitution?

It is you that assign a negative moral value to the act of prostitution, there are no hard laws that make it so.

Where's the evidence in support of that opinion?

Can you make your law of probabiblity explicit? I have not seen any rigorous application of probability in your post, but maybe I missed it.

Well, by eating them, you will definitely kill the worms 

No, I don't have any data, but I do not need any data, I did not make the statement that prositutes will probably return to their former employment.

Kaylala, maybe you should give up that occupation, now that you know what it is 

nferyn, our differences in opinion may be cultural. You have merely woken me to another possibility; prostitution may not be a bad thing after all by your logic, it is just another job.

Every society/culture has it concept of decadence, in Belgium it may be perfectly acceptable to be a prostitute (just another occupation), I wonder if that is so; I have seen the girls in the glass rooms as I walked the street of Antwerpen. I guess it is a sanctioned behavior. I have also seen kids in Lausanne that are allowed to take drugs and smoke marijuana in a particular park as long as they do not sell it or leave the area. When I was in Amsterdam, I saw that people were allowed to take marijuana.

In the Nigerian society where this post is directed, Prostitution is seen as debasing oneself and not acceptable. This is not to suggest that there are no prostitutes; just that people do not wear it as a label. And to your suggestion that there are no hard laws, there are laws against prostitution in many countries of the world including Nigeria and there is also a moral law that I have posted.

I appreciate your response and it made we wonder if you think we are just a bunch of backwards folk that haven't quite accepted the reality of the times that we live in. In the Nigerian society, you cannot equate Prostitution with being a janitor, driver, garbage collection even shit collector (we still have those); it is just not acceptable. I have heard it said that they perform a useful service in society but the question was, "Will you marry a Prostitute".

With the connotation of the word and our so called cultural inhibitions, I have suggested that within the context of our society a prostitute is not a first choice for a wife, I need not repeat my reasons. I also left it open for the individual based on their level of emancipation to make that a personal choice.

Sorry I have not taken up the technical issues in your discussion but I get paid to do that kind of work and will not spend hours on it just to prove a point. I wonder if that makes me a prostitute. No, not by my definition.

Hi pendelite,

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I personally would advise anybody to choose that career path, but I personally think that we shouldn't look down on it so much, after all there are no real valid reasons to hate the practice so much.
Now, as far as acceptance in society goes, maybe Belgium is more tolerant in that regard, but it is still very much a marginal thing in society. It's not going to be accepted as just another job for a long time, if ever.

As to the hypothetical question of me being able to marry to a prostitute, I personally would not let that be an issue in my decision. I know that prostitution correlates with a lot of other social vices, so it would be unlike that I did, but not for that reason.

I believe that a vote count at the onset could have helped, to record average views of marriageable people, but if you truly love this so-called prostitute, perhaps marriage would be a way to help my spouse to make a change. Afterall, marriage is about two people holding  and leading one another home to God.
As Soul, children of God, we live in this world as though in a prison of the human body. And if you consider the evidence it's obvious how mind, emotion and body, which are the component parts of this prison, can make princes(ses) of heaven live like something else.

if i were to be a man, Yes i Could marry a prostitute!!!!!! it's all aba love, it's humans that mk mistakes!!

some man does

  >:(MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MARRY A,
-FREE GIVER, 
-A FIFTH HAND/EXPIRED  GOOD, 
-A BORE HOLE, 
-A PUBLIC TOILET, 
-A PUBLIC DOG, 
-A VIRTUELESS BULK OF FLESH, 
-A MATRASS FOR THE NEEDY, 
-A PHILANTHROPIST , 
-A CHEWING GUM BABE, 
IS LOVE THAT BLIND????MEN!!! IF IT IS, I'LL PUT ON GLASSES, ME!!! KE!!!!WHEN SHE NO USE JAZZ,

SOME PEOPLE DEY TRY,

i guess you can depending on the type person you are. will you have a bad conscience after marrying her. if you will, i guess you can sit and talk with her and just work your way up from there.

im in love wit a stipper lol but its no big deal so far she isnt doin it wen she with u

Hmmm I wonder why it seems to me that most people who have replied to this thread are assuming that a prostitute automatically refers to a female.

There are male prostitutes, both those who do it for free and those who do it for money. What would you all say about a guy who sleeps around indiscriminately with various women? That in my view is also prostitution. Will any woman marry such a guy? 

Personally, I won't, but that's just my preference sha.

It'll be intriguing to know how many of the guys that have sworn here that they can never marry a prostitute actually have several sex partners 

Seun i honestly agree with u cos i don't xpect any normal guy not get married 2 someone who don't share your dreams.more or less ASHA,

HELL NO!!!u can take a monkey out of d forest but u cant take d forest out of a monkey.i dont want to give myself headache.so i wont go there

you can't turn a prostitute into a wife

you can't turn a ho into a husband

Never will i take a prostitute as a wife.

Male or Female prositutes?

Want to know the opinion of people concering this issue.Can you date a prostitute or even marry one knowing fully well that she is.
Secondly has anyone ever consider why people go into prostitution