I have no problem with legalizing prostitution, I think it should be licensed, taxed, and there should be benefits for the girls or guys doing it (medical coverage, drug rehab) with the idea of helping the prositutes into other professions.
The only thing that makes me double back on this premise, is that making it legal, means that the other prostitute related practices (underaged girls, slave imports etc), will be driven deeper underground due to the additional resources that will be put up against it.
the other issue is that there will always be pimps even if it becomes legal, its just that those pimps who live off of these prostitutes will now be under the guise of legal business entities which means that they will be protected under the law.
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