Man beat 15-year-old girl brought to Twin Cities to be a prostitute

[jeff47]

53. I'm not sure that your fact is so demonstrable.

For example, prostitution is de-facto legal in the UK.

Anti-prostitution forces spent years agitating against that, claiming there were tons of underage prostitutes, and tons of women being forced into prostitution. Their claims kept escalating over the years - the numbers of such women kept going up each time the claim was made.

So the UK authorities decided to do something about it. They interviewed thousands and thousands and thousands of prostitutes. They offered UK women protection from abusers, and foreign prostitutes were offered a free flight home.

2 foreign women took them up on the deal. 0 UK women did. A small handful of underage prostitutes were found (somewhere around 5, IIRC).

While I think very few women would grow up dreaming of being a prostitute, legal prostitution doesn't seem to cause the problems you fear.