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Yeah, I pretty much think that adult prostitution should be legal everywhere. In general, I think outlawing "vices" only leads to more crime, to making the vices worse, and to ever-more-unhealthy abuse of people, their rights, and their space.
I'm not saying I think prostitution is all woo-hoo great-- don't get me wrong. I don't think it's at all an optimal way for people to relate to one another sexually. But the least we can do, by legalizing it, is to try to assure that any person working as a prostitute is of legal age, doing so of their own free will, and being given safe working conditions and fair treatment.
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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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