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Mobile prostitution on wheels is probably a money maker idea. Illegal you say? Disrupt!

In all seriousness, it's about time that prostitution was examined with the same critical eye we've finally started to turn on cannabis prohibition. The results may (and should IMO) be similar: ater criminals are cut out of the loop, both the dealers and customers end up better off, as do the tax authorities.

In that eventuality, yes, mobile service would obviously be at least as lucrative as van-based barber shops, probably far more so.

The reality in countries that have legalized it (Austria, Germany, Netherlands, and others) seem to be the opposite.

Prostitutes are still for the most part desperate immigrants, held hostage in various ways, and exploited by the companies that traffick them in and run the brothels. In other words, legalized prostitution still consists for the most part in paying money to shady people to be able to rape some poor girl.

Sounds like a failure of regulation, if that's indeed correct. I disagree that exploitation and trafficking are necessary or inherent properties of the 'profession.'

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