Personally I feel that anyone who supports prostitution might as well support slavery - What is the difference, really? Trafficking women in all ages to work for other people, without pay? There is no difference.

Of course, I will admit that prostitution can be considered an industry, if all the women (or men) in this industry chose for themselves to be in this industry, and actually got paid.

But the sad story is, that the vast majority of these women work for others. Not only that - 88% of the women who chose to be prostitutes themselves are there because of poverty and would like to leave it. Atrag once said to me, that there are a lot of people who are miserable where they work, and would like to do something else - Valid point? No! 80% of the prostitutes have been a victim to rape before becoming prostitutes. 72% are currently or formerly homeless. A Canadian Report on Prostitution and Pornography concluded that girls and women in prostitution have a mortality rate 40 times higher than the national average. n one study, 75% of women in escort prostitution had attempted suicide. Prostituted women comprised 15% of all completed suicides reported by hospitals.

Women do not want to be prostitutes. I bet you'd have to ask a lot of women before you find a single one who would want to be a prostitute at any circumstances.

It should be legal so it can be regulated Well, it is legal in Denmark, and trust me when I say the numbers of suicides, rape, underaged prostitutes, trafficking and all that are not smaller here.

So to answer your question - It should be illegal to buy a prostitute - You should literally make a law that bans someone to buy a prostitue, because then the man (or woman, I'm not gonna be sexist) who purchases a prostitute can be punished for it, and the prostitute herself will not, because she is a victim.