“Prostitution is simply another variation of sex activity involving consenting adults.”
Except it very often doesn’t involve consenting adults. Women and children are often trafficked into the sex trade, or their protector will use violence, drugs, and isolation to keep them from leaving.
Understood. I think an analogy would be pornograghy. We have legalized and allow the most vile and explicit pornography you can imagine, but still maintain laws and regulations against child pornograohy. I would anticipate the same reasoning in prostitution, in which we say its illegal and prosecutable for underage prostitutes, but allowable for those of legal age.
Since we are at a point where key Supreme Court decisions have made it clear that we cannot have laws or social.policies which are based on morality, I expect that laws against prostitution will eventually be abolished.