Agree or disagree: criminalization of something is only useful if doing so reduces it from happening

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Confusing a little bit, but I think basically in a nutshell:

The American people should be totally free to do whatever they damn well please so long as it doesn't harm another person... and by harm I mean cause the other person's health in any way to be jeopardized or worsened by your actions.

So there's a lot of interpretation with that, but if I wrote up a Constitution, that would be the basic guideline - maximum freedom to a point, but when it starts to hurt people, and especially hurt innocent people like our children, then enough is enough and the State then has the moral and legal authority to clamp down on something.

So two consenting adults banging each other's brains out is no concern of the State.  It just isn't.  We've got a million more important fish to fry and demons to chase.

However, when a young person (girl or boy) is coerced into a life of selling themselves by street pimps, those hurting those kids must be dealt with severely.

So for prostitution or sex work or whatever you want to call it, it's the world's oldest profession and it will likely be the world's youngest profession too when the Earth is done for good, so it's around to stay.

Keep vulnerable people - minors - away from it and safe from it... but good lord if a 45-year-old gay man wants to sell his body for a night to another gay adult man, is that really something important for the State to criminalize?