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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
For the sake of argument, would that be true if it were legal? How much of the exploitation of prostitutes comes from needing a pimp for protection in a black-market transaction?
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That's not a for-sake-of-argument thing. That's a very concrete point. You're dead right. If it's legal, there are a lot less pimps and women who choose the field could get a lot more of their wages. Though, I guess when you remove the cost of pimps, there'd be a short race-to-the-basement price war. Still, like anything else, cream would rise and the most attractive and cleanest would probably command highest rates. In a lot of regards, keeping it illegal is doing a terrible disservice to prostitutes because it hurts their bottom line and discourages them from taking steps to make themselves more attractive and disease free (health care and beauty costs, etc.), which would benefit them economically and from a health perspective.
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