Rinse & rePeat
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Well said.Which countries, and "Just fine" by who's definition? And I didn't say just prostitution, but whoring in general. It's promiscuity and sleeping around, too. That absolutely destroys families, which is the foundation for any strong nation. Both illegitimacy and divorce have been skyrocketing in the US, ever since the sexual revolution in the 60s. I think it has become worse with the advent of constant internet porn, and hookup apps.
Why did you focus on the last part of my statement, while ignoring the part about why the government regulates it in the first place? I'll reprint it without that last part-
"A more technical answer is that everything has been converted to "commercial crimes" in the US, and that congress has the right to regulate "interstate commerce" under Article 1 Section 8 Clause 3 of the Constitution. They have no authority to regulate individual sexual practices in the private, but as soon as you bring money (more specifically, Federal Reserve Notes) into it, it becomes commercial in nature."
While shady characters may thrive in a black market, it's clear that they thrive in legal sex work, too. Pornography is legal, for example, but it's still dominated by those same shady characters, and plagued with the exact same problems as prostitution. I didn't imply that prostitution is "safer" because it's illegal (specifically, a commercial crime), but it's really a disgusting industry in general, and will bring with it true human rights violations, like all the ones I mentioned above, whether it's legal or illegal. You can see this in both legal pornography, and illegal prostitution.
Maybe that's the problem, you just don't care. I don't truly buy that, though. Would you want to live right next door to a brothel?