Should prostitution be legal?

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Prostitution should be legal, however only so that this business can be properly regulated, and the women who have resorted to this type of work be properly examined every week for STD's, and all women who are legal prostitutes should work in government regulated and supervised brothels.

However, this is not to say that the government should condone this line of work for women, but should regulate it merely for the health of both the women and their customers. This would eliminate many of the crimes associated with the business, and it would serve well to keep prostitution out of the streets.
Banning prostitution is not really much of a way to stop people from working as prostitutes. Governments who ban prostitution are merely turning a blind eye to the real problem.
Why do women resort to prostitution? Some to pay for their university fees, some do so because they have no jobs, some do to support their families...
If people go to the root of the problem, and actually offer the ladies a good line of work which they can use to support themselves financially, I'm sure that most of these women would never even work in such lines of work, but it's just that they have to.

And for 1st world countries like America, this should be a matter of shame, for they don't even seem to import most of their prostitutes, their own people have to resort to this. With this in mind, the US government should try to help such women, or women who are in need of financial support, as this would prove to me much more effective in rooting out prostitution than banning it with a law.
For poorer countries, well, I don't know...I mean I've toured around Europe for some time, and I can say with certainty that richer EU nations almost always import their prostitutes from ex-communist(meaning, poor) countries, or even some of the poorer EU countries like Bulgaria and Romania.
Allowing prostitution to be legalized could in fact serve the large human-trafficking businesses that operate in these regions, and I know that a lot women are promised work in countries like Ukraine and etc. but when they reach their destination, they are instead forced into prostitution.
Local prostitution, if there is such a thing in richer EU countries, cannot compete with the cheaper prostitutes from poorer countries.
Legalizing prostitution here would not serve much really, but I believe prostitution is already legal in some EU countries like Germany, but in most EU countries, prostitution is not regulated, and organized prostitution is illegal.
And it's dazzling that most of the countries who supply richer countries with prostitutes have strong anti-prostitution laws, and I believe that by far, Russia, Ukraine and Moldova are the biggest importers in those areas.
Thailand on the other hand makes it's money from local prostitution, although Russian(and a few other nationalities like Chinese/etc.) prostitutes also have a presence there...