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As I mentioned elsewhere, I think "vice" laws and the enforcement thereof are largely a waste of taxpayer resources. I also think that sex laws regulating anything done by two consenting people over the age of consent (I use that phrase since I am also in favor of lowering the age of consent for sex, the drinking age, and the voting age, to 16) are just excuses for puritanical and sexually repressed people to exert control over people who feel freer to express their sexuality.
Nonetheless, I do think that prostitution, being in an overlap between sex and commerce, and being associated in recent times with abuse and exploitation of the unwilling, demands some regulation of the trade, though. The laws in Canada seem pretty good to me in that respect, except for the one outlawing houses of prostitution. I actually think legal prostitution would be both safer and easier to regulate and tax if there were houses of joy.
While we're at it, I also think that most illegal drugs should be legal, and it should be legal for private citizens to distill "personal-use" amounts of alcohol.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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