should prostitution brothels be legal?

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Yes (feminist)

Sex workers should not be subjected to the abuse and degradation that comes with working outside the law. Even if you believe that sex shouldn't be commodified and transformed into a product for sale, you should at least not support the right of pimps to rake in boatloads of cash while abusing women and subjecting them in some instances to outright slavery. Brothels should be made legal, sex work legalized, and sex workers given full agency over the work they do. Make pimping illegal and allow sex workers to form cooperative brothels or, barring that, form unions and give them all rights accorded to free working people.