What’s so bad about prostitution anyways?

How does legalized prostitution protect 13 year old girls from rape: If a prostitute is raped, and studies show that most are, she would be able to contact the police and report the incident. But right now, she must suffer in silence, for if she reports it, she will be arrested for being a prostitute.

Child predators aren't interested in women, i.e. prostitutes, of legal age: You're right. Hence the name child predators. By regulating prostitution, we would help reduce, and hopefully eliminate, the number of underage girls participating in prostitution. If child predators weren't interested in the older prostitutes, which they wouldn't be, it would simply mean they wouldn't participate by purchasing the services of prostitutes, thus reducing the prostitution rate (which I'm sure you would love). I never said that legalizing prostitution would eliminate creepy men being attracted to young girls. But hopefully it would eliminate means for them to practice their fantasies.

My arguments contain a lot of flaws: Like what?

The Nevada case is an exception to the rule: Or it's evidence to support my argument? I don't know how to dispute that...I mean it is the only case in America where prostitution is legal, so it is hard to empirically cross check the findings. But if you hypothesize that it is an exception to the norm, go for it.

It would be a headache to regulate prostitution: Good point. If the stress of potential laws and regulations is to be considered, we definitely shouldn't do anything serious. I mean it's a hassle housing prisoners and obviously a draining source of state revenue, so lets just stop.

It's immoral: That made me smile.

And I wouldn't be so quick to swallow all the statistics from the anti-trafficking activists. They conflate all forms of trafficking for the purpose of inflating the numbers and then focus almost entirely on prostitution (especially child prostitution) as if the numbers were all about that single aspect. They also declare that all prostitution is involuntary as is all other forms of sex work such as dancing and acting in porn. The public and media gobble up their claims (most often nothing but heavily biased guesses) uncritically and report them as if they were fact.

It's all part of the war on sex, folks. It's like the war on drugs. It's becoming an industry unto itself and it gets a free ride because they pass themselves off as helping women and children. It's stunning that women aren't outraged by the way they are portrayed as being so weak willed and vulnerable that they are completely defenseless against those who would exploit them. What ever happened to that part of the women's movement where they celebrated their own self determination and ability to decide for themselves how to live their lives? What ever happened to the "My body, my choice" mantra? Is it only their choice if they decide to use their bodies in politically approved ways?

The fact that prostitution remains illegal is proof positive that people will persecute other people if they can get away with it and prostitutes have been declared by Americans as fair game. They're portrayed as sluts and treated as if they were subhuman, not deserving of the same rights and legal protections as everyone else. Prostitutes are the new Jews and those who condemn them are the new Nazis.

Do some research on groups opposed to prostitution and porn. You will find the loudest and most sex-negative comments come from feminist groups and it has been that wya for years. It wasn't Pat Robertson theorizing men enjoy oral sex because they want women to shut up--it was the leader of a women's rights group (look it up) saying something so stupid. When Tucker Max speaks at college campuses, evangelists don't protest and clamor for censorship--members of women's studies groups do.

Here is a quote about feminist icon Andrea Dworkin.

"(Her) essential impulse when seeing human beings living freely is to try and control or stop them — for their own good. Like Dworkin, they are horrified by male sexuality, and see men as such as a problem to be tamed. Like Dworkin, they believe in the power of the state to censor and coerce sexual freedoms. Like Dworkin, they view the enormous new freedom that women and gay people have acquired since the 1960s as a terrible development for human culture."

My criticism stands. I believe you picked on Christians because they are a safe and easy target. Your fellow left wing travellers--not so safe and easy.

You should do a little more research. Feminists and women's groups are much more sex-negative than your average Christian, and would complain louder than "Christian America" were prostitution to be legalized.

You probably consider yourself a brave bearer of truth. You're not. Go take on a women's studies program and a strident feminist professor if you really want a fight ( you don't) instead of tired old Christian bashing.