There is the troubling fact that many prostitutes are not in the business of their own free will. Of course if you analyze the incentives and option of everybody involved, it is clear that the criminalization of it compounds the problem.

What puzzles me immensely is that in progressive countries like Sweden the push against prostitution is almost worse (although with the angle that the buyers are criminalized), and that feminist women don't see that decriminalization would have a mostly empowering fact for the prostitutes (who are mostly female).

I can see that it is an icky subject for many and how people who fight against the objectification of women might fall in the trap of thinking that selling your time for a fee might contribute to that.

However pimping out my brain for trying to make people spend their money on ingame purchases is way ickier to me.