Maybe if we handle it like we handle cigarette smoking? Not illegal, but regulated, heavily taxed, only for adults, only in designated areas, and with a government campaign that points out all of the (mental) health hazards that come with it?
I think regulation might be worse. With regulation comes licensing / certifications which of course costs money that most prostitutes don't have. Basically, it'll create a new legal class of pimps.
I think that this has already happened in Nevada thanks to the licensing restrictions on brothels there.
Absolutely not. There is too much regulation as it is. Cigarette smoking harms, the smoker and others. Prostitution does not.
Wouldn't that proposal be less regulation than what there currently is?
That's written by a well known feminist anti-pornography and anti-prostitution activist, who was accused by her research assistant of fabrication and misrepresentation of data...