Some say the Nevada model of legal prostitution works well. Among other things, there are licensing and health requirements, including mandatory condom use.
Prostitution in some form has been around since the dawn of time. The question really is, in my opinion, how do we regulate it, enforce laws or regulations dealing with this activity.
wrong is never ever right...
The Nevada prostitution model created a way for people like the late unlamented Dennis Hof to launder some of their money.
Most prostitution is still the illegal prostitution in Vegas and Reno.
Brothel prostitution is the worst of all worlds for the freelancer, so competent freelancers always work independently where they can charge more and screen their own clients.
The legality of Prostitution in Nevada is overstated by prostitution advocates.
The fact is the parts of Nevada that the vast majority of people live in prostitution is illegal, just like everywhere else in America. Specifically: prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas, Reno and Henderson - the three biggest cities in Nevada, as well as the entire counties that contain those cities.
75% of Nevada residents live in Clark County, alone. When you add in Washoe County (Reno) you might be up around 90%.
Basically the Nevada model is that you can locate your retail sex business in the middle of nowhere.
Most other states don't have entire counties with almost no one in them. It's not clear how you apply the "Nevada model" to somewhere like Vermont, which doesn't have an empty quarter. Esmerelda County, NV, for instance has a population of 783.
If legal prostitution caused so few problems in Nevada then I would expect them to open up Reno, Las Veagas and Henderson to it, but no one is talking about doing that. Instead there has been some discussion of closing the empty county loophole and making selling sex illegal in the whole state.
This is true--but prostitution is wrong, and a pernicious sin that attracts other revolting and violent things even where it's legal.
We need to accept, not prostitution as legal, but original sin as a fact. That means there are things that tempt us through our weak human nature that we must reject and resist, or be destroyed. If we legally endorse the idea that sex is NOT a sacred thing that belongs only to marriage, we blow up everything.
Why? If you legalize what's wrong that you like, such as nookie with no strings attached, you get what's wrong that you don't like--such as rampant venereal disease, and then abortion to eliminate the "hazard" of pregnancy in prostitutes. That denies the sacredness of life, so you next get euthanasia, and then the "law" dictating who gets dibs on medical care. And dictating how many kids you can have. Not far from that is routine political murder, as in China (and perhaps the deep-state here) today. Followed by genocide in Russia in the 1930s, Germany in the 1940s, and of course China in the 1960s and today.
Extra-marital nookie is a major weapon in the arsenal of totalitarians because it undermines the main resistance to dictatorship, which is the family.
Besides legalizing prostitution and persecuting religion, all socialists seem to create coed youth groups and then order the kids to go on multi-day nature hikes with no separation of the sexes for sleeping, washing or bathrooms. The Commies in Russia and China, and the Nazis in Germany did this. The kids of course would screw around and get drawn away from their families toward this brave new world of the State.
We can't go down that path. It leads to hell in this life and the next.
Prostitution in some form has been around since the dawn of time.
Murder has been around since the dawn of time. As well as child prostitution (which i am sure has support in the dim realm) ..Child molesters ...hard drugs..stealing ...elder abuse...