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

[stevenleser]

185. It's not much of a point if your reasoning is faulty and misstates study results.

There is one iron clad fact we have regarding the legalization debate. That is that legalizing improves the lives of sex workers. That is shown in virtually every study of the subject.

We also have studies that show that making prostitution legal tends to produce a small increase in inflow of trafficking to the country that legalizes. Those that push for keeping prostitution illegal, like you, have attempted to suggest that this means that it increases trafficking or increases demand, but the studies don't show that. That is an unsupported leap from what those studies show. It just as likely (more likely imho) could mean that people who are being trafficked anyway have a small percentage chance of being redirected to a country that has legalized prostitution. There is no evidence that the trafficking itself increases, i.e. that people who would not have been trafficked were trafficked because a country legalized prostitution.

And whether you acknowledge it or not, its pretty ugly to on the one hand claim that sex work is such a bad thing and on the other completely dismiss as 'silly' the idea that LGBT prostitution should be considered. Combine that with the fact that legalization will improve the lives of sex workers, and it is pretty hard to determine the agenda of those seeking to keep it illegal. That agenda certainly has nothing to do with consideration of people in the industry.