If prostitution were legal, would it stop the trafficking in young girls and women?
I can agree, on a narrow point, that if consenting adults are doing things, then it is a “victimless” crime. But with so much trafficking and prostitutes who are NOT consenting adults, isn’t that a very different discussion?
I have heard about legal prostitution in rural Nevada, but don’t know if legalizing and licensing the activity has stopped trafficking there.
[[I can agree, on a narrow point, that if consenting adults are doing things, then it is a “victimless” crime.]]
It’s not a victimless crime- disease is spread by this activity- and innocent people get affected by it, doctors, nurses, health workers, hospital patients- etc= in many different ways- and we the people end up paying for lifelong very very expensive drugs and healthcare for those who engage in it-
Most prostitution in Nevada is illegal, and is in Vegas.
“If prostitution were legal, would it stop the trafficking in young girls and women?”
I think the opposite here. Legal prostitution would increase demand. Increased demand would require more hookers to meet it.
My state legalized mj. Result?
Explosive increase in ILLEGAL mj growing, meth, heroin, assaults, car wrecks, car burnings, car theft, break ins and other theft, AS 1 (usually gun shot wounds), etcetc.
Some things are just morally wrong and to legalize them increases the problems associated with them.
Legalizing prostitution means more corrupt politicians, more under-age sex slavery, more disease, more human trafficking, more violent sex crimes, and stuff other people mentioned. Plus criminals and perverts are attracted from all over the place. Once OR legalized mj, criminals and thugs and weirdos from all over flooded the prime mj growing areas.
So then idiots say “well, all states should legalize”. More stupidity.
Next they will want to legalize slavery again.