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What is the psychological effect of prostitution on the women who participate? Sure, legalization and regulation can help with the physical health effects and coercion by pimps, but there is still the fact that it is a rather lucrative profession, and if legal, it will draw in women looking for easy money without regard for the mental toll it can take on them. I agree that we are too puritanical about just about everything in this country, and I suspect that legalizing and regulating the sex industry would be a positive change, but legalizing it is a de facto and de jure endorsement of that mindset, and I would want to be sure of a net gain before taking action.
The nagging thought in the back of my head on the issue has always been the opening of it for easy money to people who are not really capable of handling it but want the easy cash.
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