I agree that social effects are probably worse, but making prostitution legal doesn't solve all of them - after all, underage prostitution will always be illega

I agree that social effects are probably worse, but making prostitution legal doesn't solve all of them - after all, underage prostitution will always be illegal (I hope) and probably rightly so, and that's one way into all those illegal activities. Here in Uruguay, prostitution is legal, yet we do have problems with minors being pressed into prostitution, and also the sex export trade, where women are more or less kidnapped and sent to Europe (Italy and Spain mostly)