Agreed. Prostitution should be regulated.
Government has no business regulating prostitution.
Either fornication laws of old should still stand (prohibiting unmarried sex and adultery) or anyone can have sex.
Payola in the radio industry was not a crime in the early 1960s. The unreported income that radio employees received was a crime. The same would be true of a woman who accepts "gifts" as incentives to go out with someone (and possibly have sex).
The Center for Disease Control has abandoned their post by politicizing AIDS rather than trying to find out the sexual partner history of all those infected.
Since the CDC won't inform possibly infected partners anymore for all STDs, I see no point to having the government regulate potential sex partner to give a USDA-type stamp that this orifice has been determined to be disease free.
If a prostitute is seeing several men a day, there will be no way to guarantee that all of those Johns are getting a sterile "environment".
The same is true of bar sluts who may only be going home with 5 different men a month (and not charging for their services).
Solicitation on the street, "white slavery", houses of prostitution, etc. can all be prosecuted. Individual transactions are pretty much impossible to stamp out. And in the absence of supporting morals laws, somewhat difficult to understand.