Should prostitution be legal?

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Well, besides making it safe, governments should actually focus on ending the huge amount of human trafficking that is involved in the prostitution business.
The greatest part that is "illegal" about the prostitution business is there. Not just that, but forced prostitution and etc. is part of it, although there are many who do it willingly, they still have to cope with low quality living conditions.

Yeah, all good ideas.

But making it legal in the first place would (in my opinion) at least increase the low quality of living you mention for the prostitutes. Ofcourse that will come by regulation.

And same goes for human trafficking. By regulating and ensuring that clients expect a certain 'standard' when using prostitutes' services, human trafficking will become a much less fancied alternative (excuse the pun), and these prostitutes may (I would presume they will) become less wanted for the customer (why risk doing something illegal when what you want is perfectly legal), thus meaning that human trafficking should be reduced for the simple fact that they won't be getting as much business. (sorry for all the brackets)

Well, I'm fairly certain that it will make prostitution 100% safer, but the living conditions of the prostitutes won't change I'm afraid. Besides, having sex with illegal prostitutes is already illegal where prostitution is legal and regulated, but illegal prostitution occurs to a certain degree nevertheless.
The only thing which keeps most customers in my country away from illegal prostitutes is that they are unregulated, and may contain STD's such as AIDS, and well, to be brutally honest, unregulated prostitution is the only significant source of terminal STD's like AIDS.
Like, whenever the police raid an illegal brothel, they request that the women go to a hospital to get tested. When a problem arises, like if some of the women have HIV, it makes it on nationalwide TV channels so that everyone sees the hazards associated with illegal prostitution. But still a large number of women from ex-soviet countries pour to Turkey to work as prostitutes, willingly or otherwise.
There is always demand, may they be legal or not.

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Yeah, just imagine the monies the government could make.

Well, money can never be more important than the lives of women, but yes, regulated brothels present a huge income of taxes, which should be, in my opinion, used to help the women who are prostitutes, by providing them with honest labour, and the skills needed for employment.