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the pro-legalization crowd...
...likes to point towards the Netherlands as a society that isn't sexually repressed because it accepts prostitution. To which I'd always argue, why, if prostitution is just another job over there, are most of the "girlies in the windows"
1. Eastern European
2. Thai or Vietnamese
3. African
4. West Indian
You don't see that many girls from middle-class Dutch homes going into the business.
Do I know whether it should be legal or not? No. But you can't argue it's the same as a dancer using her feet to make a living (even if she does destroy them with pointe shoes in the process). With prostitution, you are selling not your body, but a process of your body that either God or evolution designed TO MAKE MORE HUMANS.