As Viagra celebrates its 10-Year Anniversary, 93 year-old men are being arrested in prostitution stings.

Frank Milio, according police records, was caught in November soliciting sex from an undercover officer for $20. Milio told a newspaper that he was only flirting with the woman. "I haven't had that in years," he said. "Ninety-three is kind of old."

The guy is 93! Give him a break, seriously. He's well lived and clearly lonely and was just looking for a good time why he still can. I'm sure there are much more important things police could have been doing than booking a 93 year-old man for something that's not even hurting anyone.

This all reverts back to the question "should prostitution be legalized". Now before you start to frown your nose at me, as I stated in a previous story, I do not and will not ever participate in this kind of activity and just because something is legal it doesn't mean I want to do it. There are a lot of things that are legal that I would never do. Drugs I can understand as being illegal, but who is prostitution really hurting? Excuse me for being so blunt but people have sex for free all the time, so is it the action that is illegal, the fact that someone is paying for it or basically the fact that the government can't collect taxes from it?

I think the process of buying children should be illegal but people seem to be doing that all the time. Why is that you ask. Because we're putting a price on a human being and selling them off…I remember hearing stories similar to that in the past and it sounds all too familiar to a shameful period of American history.

Clearly whether it's legal or not people are going to participate in it. If you're 93 and you need someone to put a smile on your face I think you've lived long enough and paid enough dues to get a free pass card. I'm sure we can make better use of our law enforcement and how our tax dollars are being utilized. 


Aaron Fields writes for KSTW-TV in Seattle. All opinions expressed in this column are his.