Why Do We Throw Prostitutes in Prison?

[jeff47]

66. Several flaws in this

When it was tried, it was a complete failure.

As long as you ignore Nevada, and all the European countries that legalized it.

For example, the UK made it de-facto legal. Women's groups and religous groups insisted legal prostitution was causing all sorts of women to be forced into it. Those groups got enough influence to trigger a nationwide investigation, where the authorities interviewd prostitutes, and offered to protect them if they were UK citizens, or give them a free flight home if they were not.

After thousands and thousands and thousands of interviews, they found.....2 women who took the flight home. The rest weren't exactly thrilled with their line of work, but they felt it was better than their other options.

At present it is prostitution is legal in Nevada, but each county has the option to make it illegal. Las Vegas and the larger cities of Nevada have found the best way to regulate prostitution is to make it illegal.

This is wrong.

Nevada's prostitution laws only allow prostitution in counties with a low population. If the population exceeds a threshold, prostitution automatically becomes illegal. So no, Las Vegas did not decide to make prostitution illegal. And the enormous numbers of people handing out ads for "adult room service" should have demonstrated to you that making it illegal has done virtually nothing to stop it.

It has worked

Oh, bullshit. A phone call can result in a prostitute "servicing" you faster than a pizza can be delivered. In every single city and state in the country. That is the utter antithesis of "worked".