When feminists and liberal men disagree

[IceAgeComing]

most feminists I know support the legalisation of prostitution and often are the most vocal about protecting sex workers - like they are trying to change the law here in a way that might lead to increased violence against women (basically decriminalising the selling of sex while banning the buying of sex; its usually called the "Nordic model") without actually consulting people working in the industry and the only people really vocally against it are feminists.  Outright legalising it would be better for everyone: it'd allow you to actually regulate the industry to protect women better and force sensible safety measures (condom use; mandatory STI tests every month, things like that) plus allow the law to actual target people who are being genuinely harmed - sex trafficking especially.  I mean even from an evidence-based perspective its a sensible policy: the places that have done it (some accidentally, Rhode Island had a loophole for a while which decriminalised the selling and buying of sex inside a building) have shown no increase of people working as sex workers, a reduction of the rate of STIs and in a few cases a reduction in rape rates, although how much I'd attribute the latter to legalising prostitution...