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Absolutely not. There is too much regulation as it is. Cigarette smoking harms, the smoker and others. Prostitution does not.

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Prostitution harms too, even legalised:

http://vaw.sagepub.com/content/10/10/1087.abstract

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...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Farley

I do not think prostitution does harm to the same extent smoking does.

It exposes you to STIs that cannot be prevented with condoms, if nothing else.

Wouldn't that proposal be less regulation than what there currently is?

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