Letters to the Editor
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Its not the prostitution,
its the human trafficking and the coercion and beating women to keep them in line and, I suppose, discriminating based on motherhood status.
Legalizing prostitution will not end all of these practices, but legalization will create some brothels that are openly known to authorities where johns would get some reassurance about the safety and security of the transaction and prostitutes would get the same. The agreements between operators of brothels and escort services and prostitutes would be enforceable in court and so would agrements between those parties and customers. People could call the cops if there was trouble.
Overall the safety all participants in commercial sex would be worlds ahead of where it is now.
Also, there would probably be more prostitution than there is now. That is a likely outcome of legalization and it shoudn't be discounted.
In general I would prefer to have more of a dubious thing if the thing itself became overall safer and less nasty.
I prefer to legalize booze and take a few thousand extra drunk driving deaths a year and more alchoholism etc. rather than the rampant criminality and reduced consumption that prohibition brought.
What does everyone else want?