The sad thing about this type of article is that we have a perfectly legitimate case for people whose work happens to involve sex - in a fully responsible and m

The sad thing about this type of article is that we have a perfectly legitimate case for people whose work happens to involve sex - in a fully responsible and measured way - and it becomes as a hook to make a shallow "all sex work should be normalized". > What difference does it honestly make? Is that a cheap rhetorical question or do you don't see the moral issues of legalized prostitution? Just to start with the basics: how "incentivized" is someone who grew up with poverty and/or abuse and started prostituting themselves? How can we prevent young vulnerable girls getting lured into it? What is a woman that entered into the oldest profession to do after she reached an age where she is no longer attractive and can not compete with the hordes of young girls who see it as a way to make a lot of money for little "work"? Let's think a bit further: how about the health and their own relationship with sex for a woman that turned to prostitution? Don't you think that dealing with all sorts of Johns (who are likely to have their own issues when relating to sex) leads into prostitutes having their own sex issues? "Well, porn has faced the same challenges, got regulated and now it's a huge industry", you might say. Yes, it's true. The questions are then: do you really want to turn everything into an "industry"? Are we better of as a society after that porn became something to be mass-produced and mass-consumed? For every Mia Khalifa that managed to turn her life around, how many other women got ground up by a life-changing decision they would make when so young? Do we want to have even more of the political-bureaucratic machine responsible in telling us what is acceptable and what is not? > If prostitution were legal and accepted in the USA Plenty of countries where it is legal and it still doesn't hold a candle to drinking or smoking.