The imaginary victims of victimless crimes

[Kurska]

29. In many cases I don't even think it is emotional baggage.

There is this idea that men who buy sex need to be punished. They just won't tolerate it, because for whatever reason they find the idea toxic. Even if it is an entirely consensual exchange that is mutually beneficial to both parties, they simply will not allow something like that to exist.

This causes a desperate attempt to come up with a solution. Any solution, where this doesn't happen. Like people saying you should be able to sell sex, but not buy.

They pretend it makes any sense for the law to sanction the selling of something, but to criminalize the buying of it. Their primary concern isn't the well being of the people involved, that may be a secondary concern granted, but the primary concern is for their world view and morality to be enforced. Though they may care about the well being of the people, they are willing to advocate a patently inferior and less safe system so that their puritanical beliefs can be upheld.

By men or women, left or right, opposition to prostitution in my estimation is primarily driven by moralism.