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If you legalize it you can arrest the human traffickers while enabling professional sex workers to be professionals just look at the enlightened approach to the problem taken by Australia. No brothels allowed and no pimps but independent sex work is legal.

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Brothels are allowed in most (but not all) Australian states including NSW (Sydney) and Victoria (Melbourne), they're just tightly regulated.

Plus, you'd have the assistance of legal sex workers in rooting out the traffickers.

Nice use of Aussie slang, mate.

Nothing's funnier than Aussies watching American baseball in a pub during the 7th inning stretch... "...Root, root root for the home team!"

Any evidence of that being true? Some sex worker is going to helpfully point out how Alex is bringing in East European “models” or how Miguel just brought some girls up? And what’s going to happen to the legal sex workers when they start snitching on the Rudaj or Zetas?

Any Canadians want to weigh in on this?

There hasn’t been a recorded murder of a sex worker in Vancouver in nearly a decade. [1]

1. https://www-macleans-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.macleans....

I used to live next door to a brothel in Sydney.

so you're advocating for regulatory capture? That'll go just like the legal pot industry; prohibitively expensive licensing that only goes to the already big players in the game.

Wow, if prostitution is legal that means we can have prostitution startups, and prostitution IPOs! Corporate prostitution backed by SoftBank and Saudi sovereign wealth! What a world we're making!

Is that what's happening in Canada?

Except the sex industry isn't at all as scalable as the pot industry. You can't grow a field of ass and sell it yourself.

Plus, the cost of entry is pretty low, I hear.

Robot sex will be the next big thing.

Nah.. VR will do just fine.

I’ll permit regulatory capture, rather than accepting “pimp-hand” capture.

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