I would just say let them run with it and let the police do something else other than chasing prostitutes, but my concern would be the possibility of a large raise in std's. The problem with std's is that some of them can be transmitted to the child and then from that child to its children. I can't see anything good coming out of that..

Ok, a few arguments against prostitution.

It encourages the objectification and commodification of women. First, prostitution is vastly biased in gender towards the women being the prostitutes. Second, when one woman decides that her body is worth a price that implies that all female bodies are worth a price, even the bodies of those who would object to that. Commodification means that women everywhere are viewed as something that has a worth in dollars. third, objectification also occurs because legalizing prostitution means that the state is saying that a body, and because of the gender bias specifically a female body, is not something that is intrinsic and inalienable to that woman, but is a piece of property, and by extension that woman is a piece of property and not a person. When there is still a pay gap, when there are still so few women in positions of authority, anything that undermines the progress of woman’s liberation like this should be unacceptable.

Banning is extremely important, and has advantages over regulation. First, when something is banned, it means that police are able to act on any instance of it without questioning the paperwork and forms to check if that brothel is licensed. This makes it much more efficient to police the brothels where abusive behaviour occurs. Second, legalization means a much larger customer base, both from those who didn’t do it because it was illegal, but also because it becomes normalized in society. Crucially though, it is a larger customer base for badly run, unregistered, illegal brothels as well as the regulated ones. After legalization in Victoria, Australia, the number of unregulated brothels increased dramatically, which means more women are being abused and forced into that life in those venues, not less. Thirdly, a blanket ban means it is easier to get leverage on middle men to testify against bosses. Let’s be clear, no one supports prosecuting the women themselves, who are almost always the victims, either individually or in the broader sense of society. But those who run these brothels should be prosecuted, and can more easily be prosecuted when the ban is complete and not subject to loop-holes. This is especially important when many brothels are only one part of an organized crime chain. The leverage the threat of prosecution provides over the managers of the brothel is useful in compelling their testimony against the bigger fish.

Banning is important for efficient law enforcement and for protecting women, and the legitimizing of the treatment of women as objects is abhorrent. Prostitution must be banned.

Prostitution is disgusting, and I don't hear about too many women selling themselves for noble reasons (ex., she needs money to feed her kids), for which I'm sure many could overlook it. Unfortunately, most prostitutes these days are unhealthy and unclean, and are doing it mostly for drugs. They're not only endangering themselves, but others. In fact, in cases where it can be proven (or where there is significant evidence), I'd like to see prostitutes being held accountable for passing on incurable, terminal STD's, such as HIV/AIDS.

I strongly disagree with prostitution. This act not only degrades women but it shouldn't be allowed for one to sell their body for money.

However, does this also apply to selling a kidney or other body part. Surrogacy? Selling your eggs or sperm for money so that someone else can have a baby. In a sense, the surrogate mother is nothing more than a prostitute herself