I don’t have any problem with legalized prostitution in theory. However, regulation is really really hard. Regulation of any industry is hard but we’re talking about an industry with massive potential profits and a long history of ties to organized crime. On the other side basically have a bunch of underfunded…

I’m from a country where prostitution is legal. I somehow doubt that the (mostly Eastern European) girls and women you see standing around the train station at night will get wealthy by being forced to offer 5$ blow jobs.

The key word in your statement though is *seems*. There’s a lot of evidence that suggests that there’s an increase in human trafficking towards countries where prostitution is legal than in countries where it is illegal. (Scholarly source below). Legalization increases demand, and while there are women who enter sex…

How about harsher prison sentences for johns? Decriminalize sex work but harshly criminalize demand. And offer substantial economic rewards for prostitutes that inform on a john.

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I share your concerns about the commodification of mostly female bodies. On a theoretical level, I agree that consenting adults have the right to sell their bodies if they want to. But I know the reality of prostitution is never - or at least extremely rarely - about empowered women choosing to have sex for money. For…

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Very true. I mean, I think feminists can at least all agree it should be decriminalized. But after that it gets tricky and has to be thought out carefully if we are going to have any actual policy implemented.

I don’t think it should be criminalized, because throwing sex workers in jail solves what? Nothing. Especially considering the fact that they have always been (and will probably always be) poor, uneducated women, women without families, women who are disadvantaged, etc. and are pushed into it by circumstances because…

I like what they started to do in Scandinavian countries...let prostitutes off the hook for prostitution, and prosecute johns and pimps. Now say that 10 times, fast.

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I’m sorry, in what universe are the majority of sex workers consenting to sex? Some of them, sure, but the VAST majority of them? Being trafficked is not consenting. Being desperate is not consenting. Being poor and uneducated is not consenting. Being sold is not consenting. Being tricked is not consenting. Being…

Exactly - legal doesn’t necessarily = perfectly executed and no one is harmed or exploited.

You seem to have confused legalization (which most sex workers oppose) with decriminalization (which most sex workers support).

Maybe you should ask the trafficked Eastern European and Asian women forced into sexual slavery in “legal” brothels in Germany and the Netherlands.

Couldn’t it be that more women are hesitant to endorse a practice - legality aside - where they are especially vulnerable to the violence of human males?

Well, but there’s consenting to something because you want to have sex with people for money (and if you do, great! You do you!) and consenting to something because you’re poor, or uneducated, or feeding an addition, or whatever and it’s the only prospect you have for making money. Is that actually consent and is that…

I might not ethically like the idea of a someone being paid for sex, but I think it should be legal. I don’t think pimps should be a legal part, since when you add pimps into the mix you deal with possible coercion and the sex workers not getting their fair share of the money. But if no pimps are involved, and the sex…

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