Should prostitution be legalized?

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I think it should be legal, but there should be sufficient exit services to ensure nobody is in the job unwillingly.

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Selling sex legal, but the purchase illegal

I know its sounds like paradox, but it goes about penalizing clients only and to prevent malpractices (like human trafficking, forced or child prostitution) in it

Such way of regulating prostitution is present in ex. Canada, France, Norway or Sweden

I used to support this, but have grown less inclined towards it after recent evidence suggests that the police continue to suppress prostitutes and most prostitututes themselves find the legislation a burden on their incomes and safety. Then again, most find the legal zones in the Netherlands and Germany equally nightmarish, so I suppose more research is required.

The root problem is destitution. If you make it so nobody can fall into poverty, then nobody people will be forced into prostitution to survive, and you can have a less “problematic” sex industry. But that would require broader shifts in the economy in general.

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Legal, but heavily regulated.

Envisioning a situation where only a limited number of brothel licenses are given out per city, with mandatory police supervision, mandatory condom use, regular STD checks for all workers, mandatory registration of all workers to make sure they're all over 18 and legally able to work. Workers get steady rates, file tax returns with withholding, etc. All aboveboard. Prostitution outside of this system remains illegal.

EDIT: of course, you could have both brothels with male and female workers.

The problem here, I feel, is you'd create a two tier system: a lower tier of prostitutes victimised by the police and with no protection from customers (and who would be disproportionately immigrants or addicts or other such people), and an upper tier that knows their continued employment is dependent on pleasing the small layer of managers and owners that between them have a monopoly on brothel keeping in a certain area.