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Originally Posted by Zee

If you make it legal, you give the power back to the women who are ultimately the ones who provide the service. The tour guide who took us round Amsterdam said that Amsterdam had something like only 300 people known to be drug addicts in the city, out of a population of nearly 800,000 people. The UK on the other hand has a huge drug problem, and it's linked to prostitution. If you legalise prostitution, regulate it and improve the conditions they have to work in, not only do you provide a safer atmosphere but you even get tourism from it - how many people do you know of or have heard of that go to Amsterdam for such adventures? It's quite a common thing. It's a controversial topic but you have to accept that prostitution will always exist because some people will do anything for sex. And it's not always horrific looking people who can't get it anywhere else - you get tourists wanting the experience, you get people who want the fetish idea of it, you get people who want to do things that other women won't do. Some men don't want to spend like £50 on taking a girl out on a date hoping that it might lead to sex, some would rather just pay for sex. There are so many reasons why people do it. I can list off so many benefits behind the idea and I'm sure there are just as many for why it's not a good idea, but I'm for legalising prostitution.

Fine post with ever finer points made.