It allows for forced child prostitution if a decriminalization plan forgets its initial objective: to protect and educate, and to help stop sex slavery and human trafficking. The main goal of taking power away from those who control prostitutes is not allowing prostitution to survive underground and unmonitored. It ... Full Comment>>

Thanks for this discussion, it's interesting to hear an alternative view. I have to disagree that a prohibitionist approach to prostitution is viable or possible. Being very tough on prostitution can certainly shrink the industry, like it did during Mao's China. But, in that instant, it didn't go away, it just went ... Full Comment>>

"Then you must be pretty proud and confident in your profession", or undereducated about sexual health, at the bottom of the pile of organized crime, or in a position to not make decent money in another way, but hopefully with some level of assistance from public security/health clinics, and probably 1) ... Full Comment>>

"The main concern is that many of these streetwalkers don’t feel any shame in society from selling sex" Yikes. What a concerning attitude. Never mind about violence, STDs, lack of sex education, organized crime, human trafficking, survival sex, lack of sex education, etc. We should all be focused on ... Full Comment>>