If they are willing to do illegal sex work out of desperation, their inability to earn that income could be far more destructive to the individual than the sex

If they are willing to do illegal sex work out of desperation, their inability to earn that income could be far more destructive to the individual than the sex work. That's an uncomfortable truth, and avoiding it leads to a host of harmful prohibitions, whether it's on sex work, work for under minimum wage, micro-housing units that are under minimum floor space ordinances, or buildings that are over maximum density caps, etc.