Prostitution

I can certainly see where there would be a lot of problems associated with illegal prostitution just like the crime and violence associated with illegal marijuana. My thinking is, if it was legal and regulated and monitored by the health department the market would change. Why pick up a girl on the street when you could go to a 'respectable' cathouse that you know is clean and regulated.

When I was in college I traveled to Europe and I heard about a legal cathouse in Germany. It looked like a typical bar. You would pay a very expensive 'cover charge' to get in but the 'cover charge' included everything. IOW, you paid up front. You would have a few drinks and look around for a girl of your choosing then maybe buy her a drink. When the time was right she'd invite your upstairs to a bedroom. She would take clean sheets out of a dresser in the room and make the bed. You be given a condom and were required to use it. Afterwards she'd strip the sheets from the bed and you'd go back to the bar. Uh....at least that is what I heard that process was.

I think the market for human trafficking would drop if it were legal but that is just a guess. I'm sure in states where pot is now legal there are very few people who buy their pot in back alleys from 'questionable' characters claiming to have some good chit or killer weed. If you are a consumer why would you risk arrest for soliciting prostitution at a massage pallor or nail salon when there is a legal hohouse just down the street? Not much of a market for unregulated bootleg whiskey these days. Too risky.

I think prostitution is legal in the country Las Vegas is in but not legal within the city limits. Have no idea that logic in that.....maybe the mob wants to keep control of prostitution w/i the city?