Prostitution should be legal.

Prostitution could be regulated, taxed, and controlled better if it was to be legalized. The government could gain a substantial amount of money from taxing prostitution, help cut down on rape/violence involving prostitutes, and reduce the number of hookers with STDs. Usually, a prostitute's mistress's word is law to them, meaning all sorts of things. If the government ran whore houses instead of lowlife dominatrixes, then prostitutes (and their customers) would be much better off. Some mistresses force their girls to fuck customers raw, increasing the risk of getting an STD or even becoming pregnant, which can negatively affect many more people. There's nothing that can be done about this since it is a shady and illegal business right now.

Prostitution may not be pathetic, but at least we can try to profit off of it. Right?

>>28
It seems you made the incorrect assumption that >>23 and >>27 are the same poster, clearly they aren't.

On a practical cultural standpoint, prostitution reduces birthrates and random sexual acts of violence.  Why would a man make the effort to pursue a relationship for the sex, or failing that, take out his sexual frustrations (i.e. date rape) when there is an easier alternative?  People are lazy (myself included).

From the another way of looking at it, it undermines the family unit in a society.