I have the right to perform a sexual service in exchange for money.

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181. I'm not confusing regulation with criminalization.

I'm pointing out that, in this context, it's a distinction without a difference. Any regulation bans certain consensual transactions. And that can amount to a real, substantive constraint on what people do with their bodies.

It seems rather silly to me to claim that worrying about the effect of prostitution on attitudes towards women is "heteronormative." And it is even sillier to suggest that that one sentence of mine somehow makes it "seem" that I don't care about men involved in prostitution. Perhaps you mean to suggest that I should also be worried about the potential for prostitution to negatively impact social attitudes towards men; I think that's a different case, because heterosexuality remains the dominant framework for sexuality and for prostitution specifically (i.e., most men are straight and most prostitution is accordingly oriented toward straight men), and because the sexual objectification of men is much less deeply embedded in our culture than the sexual objectification of women, but it's a fair point to raise. (Speaking as a gay man, there is also a specific and important conversation that could be had about sexual entitlement and objectification within gay male communities, but I'm not sure this is the comment thread to have it in, or that prostitution is the right frame through which to approach it.)

It's quite likely that legalization improves sex worker conditions, especially among people who have some choice in the matter. It's also quite likely that it increases demand, and therefore the available profit for sex traffickers, and therefore the incentive for them to coerce and exploit people. Since there is no absolute constraint on supply, there is no reason to automatically assume that an increase in sex trafficking to one place decreases it in others, and some theoretical reason to think otherwise (it's not as if legalized prostitution in one country decreases demand in others). I think reasonable people can come out either way on this. But I think it is rather simplistic to think the individual rights framework of the OP resolves the question, without any attempt to engage the other social-impact issues of legalized prostitution.