Should prostitution be legal, or illegal?

[Scootaloo]

55. I can't answer this as "yes" or "no"

I have no problem with the concept of prostitution itself. If someone decides, "what the hell, I want ot have sex and get paid for it," that's fine for them I suppose.

My problem is with the commodification of the human body and the outgrowths of that. You can talk about regulation and licensing and my question is, "Oh you mean like the oil industry and lobby groups?"

There's also the problem of people effectively being forced into prostitution by their own economic position; Or under the "license and regulate" paradigm, being arrested for trying to prostitute while poor, without some ProstiCorp contract.

I don't agree that the current paradigm "works." It's a punishment levied mostly against the prostitutes and their Johns rather than a measure against the actual problems.

So I'm afraid I don't have an answer. I don't think prostitutes should be punished for their trade, but nor do I think the solution is ProstiCorp. And just to complicate things, I hold that the treatment of human bodies and emotions as a salable product is inherently problematic... I don't think there's a good answer with in the framework of "passing and enforcing laws" any more than poverty is answerable through that.