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Not that I don't support legalization, but I'm skeptical as to how much legalization would help. Put simply, can we expect new sex workers to come out of the wo
by rxhernandez 9y ago
Not that I don't support legalization, but I'm skeptical as to how much legalization would help. Put simply, can we expect new sex workers to come out of the woodwork to create the supply needed to make sex trafficking substantially less profitable? Are women and men suddenly and substantially going to start selling that service if it became legalized?
- ThrustVectoring 9y agoMoving it out of the black market itself is an effective price decrease - Johns can be expected to be willing to pay a premium to avoid the risk of prison.
- illumin8 9y agoTake a look at Rhode Island for an example of how this works in reality. The results were overwhelmingly positive: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-rhode-island-accidentally-legalized-prostitution-2014-7 http://www.businessinsider.com/how-rhode-island-accidentally...
- the_stc 9y agoLegalization and regulation. Require a license and periodic reviews. Just having easy, legal, sex available means a lot of the revenue dries up, which makes it harder to run the illegal operations.