Do you realize how illogical your defense is of an issue easily resolved by local regulations?
Are the runaway girls going to stop running away?
It'll drastically decrease for minors as they wouldn't be exploited by older men, who engage them in such activities since there would be no profit in it
Are they going to find “other work”?
Likely, yes - you already have community centers and non-profit groups who intervene and help these women.
Are they going to stop being exploited?
By whom? If it was regulated, there wouldn't be a need for pimps. Duh.
Are they going to stop taking drugs to erase the pain?
LOL. You can't save everyone from themselves, you know.
“Do you realize how illogical your defense is of an issue easily resolved by local regulations?”
Which “local regulations” resolve this issue?
Uhh...girls are going to stop running away???
If you’re a pimp with young girls, why is there no profit in that?
Your suggestion is self defeating! These intervention centers exist and yet the prostitution persists.
If it were regulated...????
The “regulated” places won’t offer the minors, for whom their will always be a market.