Should prostitution be legal?

[Napoléon]

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.

I beg to differ. But I can't be entirely sure whether it would or wouldn't make a difference to living conditions.

Besides, having sex with illegal prostitutes is already illegal where prostitution is legal and regulated, but illegal prostitution occurs to a certain degree nevertheless.

I'm not saying it would stop people from using illegal prostitutes altogether, I'm saying that there would no doubt be less people who choose to, considering they have a choice between a safe legal option, and an unsafe illegal option. They don't even have that choice at the moment in my country.

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

Agreed, which really comes back to my second point mentioned before.

and well, to be brutally honest, unregulated prostitution is the only significant source of terminal STD's like AIDS.

I wouldn't really pass comment on that as I don't know the fact of STD's such as 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.

But if prostitution was legal in the first place, the demand for these illegal prostitutes who have not been checked out for safety would surely be reduced? I would think this makes sense.

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.

Yeah that's actually what I was getting at, that taxing it is actually a way to increase the safety and standard of living for people who choose to go into prostitution, to actually help stop people being forced into it in the first place.