Hmmm...

I actually agree with your statement. It should be legalized for all possibilities. I understand that's not the point you're trying to make though

Why is it warped? Wife and daughter and girlfriend's buying sex is equality. Sons and fathers and boyfriend's do it.

@BucketlistBob cool, then, you are one of the Enlightened Few. But, most men that promote prostitution think in terms of their own pleasure, women pleasuring them. And don't even tell me I'm wrong. We all know that's true. Prostitution is gender biased.
I'd forgotten about Canada's approach of 'Sex Workers' which takes a less exploitative and more professional, more equal approach to selling ones body. In theory, it makes sense to me, I haven't researched whether it works in practice.
So, I am against prostitution and would consider, with more information, the Canadian system of 'Sex Workers'.

@IamNobody thank you. I don't know what point I'm trying to make so I have to work that through because this issue matters. Like many women and many men, I recoil at the whole notion of prostitution. It is exploitation of women. It's insulting and biased and to see it any other way, it's self serving, it's men serving themselves, thinking of their own needs. HOWEVER, give it a job description, protection for the workers (men and women and the spectrum, btw), equal access to both sexes, remove the stigma of women as sexual OBJECTS, that I CAN get behind. The funny thing is, I think DEobjectifying women is precisely what messes with the minds of guys who support legalization of prostitution. Men that support prostitution (huge generalization and apologies to men who don't fall into this category) are for it because they LIKE women as sexual OBJECTS.

@CrazyCurlz .. I hear you and don't disagree. We are just talking about two different things. My only point is, I want the government out of the picture where two consenting adults are enjoying themselves behind closed doors. Of course this is a complex issue, just wanted to clarify that my approach has nothing to do with the objectification of women. There are male prostitutes and women who like them. It is a two way street (agree with you, there is more traffic one way than the other probably for the reasons you have explained and once again, as far as legalization, that's another discussion). Lets keep the talk open, shall we?

@IamNobody thanks for clarifying on all points! Yes, to keeping the talk open!

That is of course at least part of the problem. When you make something that people want (and I dare say, need) illegal, it opens the door to criminals stepping in to fill the need. And just as corporations hire undocumented workers because they can abuse them, so do criminal enterprises. The world is full of women looking for a way out of their situations and the criminals have the connections to abuse them. This should not happen, and even in countries with legal prostitution it does, but to a lesser degree. Women who wish to sell their service should be allowed and regulated as every other worker (strippers, groomers, beauticians, welders etc.) and traffickers should be hunted down and locked up like the scum they are.