I have a question that is related to this and I think it is overlooked by many people arguing for legalization - If prostitution is legalized, it mostly means the government will set the prices to prevent dishonest competition (which could lead to exploitation for the sake of profit) and will require that sex workers have healthcare checkups, social security, drug tests, etc etc - Now I ask the important question - What do we do with the vast amount of people who may not want to consent to any of this? Just think about it - I'm a sex worker and worker on the street, I set up my own price however I want to maximize profit and get more clients, I work when I want and don't need to do check ups, maybe I'm addicted to drugs and a healthcare checkup would be bad, or maybe I'm not pretty enough to be worth 50€ as a normal price and want to make a special discount, etc - So what do we do to sex workers who simply don't want to have their job regulated? Has anyone ever thought of this from this outlook?
Legalizing sex work is a good moral decision, but ultimately it doesn't solve the problem it promises to solve - AKA ending abuse, exploitation and traffic of Humans, etc. The Netherlands still has people going to jail for exploitation, it still has a population of prostitutes where nearly half are immigrants or foreigner. There's something about legalizing that is tricky - The sex industry is exploitative for many people even if legal, just think of the cases of porn abuses - If the sex industry was perfectly healthy and didn't cater just to profits, we would have interest in expanding it, but since that's not the case and it's an industry that is known for its cases of abuse (I'm not talking about underground movements, just the average mainstream sex industry porn and workers), we have no interest in expanding it more.
Legalizing sex work is a good moral decision, but ultimately it doesn't solve the problem it promises to solve - AKA ending abuse, exploitation and traffic of Humans, etc. The Netherlands still has people going to jail for exploitation, it still has a population of prostitutes where nearly half are immigrants or foreigner. There's something about legalizing that is tricky - The sex industry is exploitative for many people even if legal, just think of the cases of porn abuses - If the sex industry was perfectly healthy and didn't cater just to profits, we would have interest in expanding it, but since that's not the case and it's an industry that is known for its cases of abuse (I'm not talking about underground movements, just the average mainstream sex industry porn and workers), we have no interest in expanding it more.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
