Especially if there would have been reasonable, well researched alternatives, like criminalizing the buyer, and not the seller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N

Especially if there would have been reasonable, well researched alternatives, like criminalizing the buyer, and not the seller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Model_approach_to_prostitution#Evaluation_of_the_model's_efficiency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Model_approach_to_prost... > It has also been reported that 12,5 % of men used to solicit prostitutes before the implementation of the law in 1999 whereas in 2014 only 7,7 % of men purchased sexual services.[5] As the top comment said, this was never about actually decreasing prostitution, but about victimizing and outcasting women.