Here’s my last comment on this (because it seems to be going nowhere). It would stand to reason that even an adult is not “meaningfully consenting” to sexual acts if they are forced into prostitution. It sounds a whole lot like rape to me. Regardless, most decent people are not going to want prostitution legalized. It’s easy enough to get prostitutes in certain areas with it criminalized. Legalizing it only adds an air of legitimacy to the whole occupation. I doubt that what most noble people want to do. It is indeed sad that people get forced into it. If they are mistreated when they attempt to leave, that is also a tragedy, but legalizing will cause more negative consequences than positive. Could U.S. culture become even more hyper-sexualized? It sure could...just legalize the profession and see what comes next.