I don't get it. America is supposed to be the "land of the free", socially, economically whatever.
According to the GOP's statements:
We believe in the power and opportunity of America’s free-market economy. We believe in the importance of sensible business regulations that promote confidence in our economy among consumers, entrepreneurs and businesses alike. We oppose interventionist policies that put the federal government in control of industry and allow it to pick winners and losers in the marketplace.
The Democrats claim to be "socially liberal".
Prostitution is both a social and an economic issue and yet nobody in the American mainstream has ever talked about legalizing it or at least decriminalizing it. It's illegal pretty much everywhere except Nevada and there it is heavily regulated to absurd levels.
If you are pro-free-market to any extent how the heck does it make sense to arbitrarily ban an entire profession just because you don't agree with it? How the heck is it a "free market" if I can't even decide how to use certain parts of my body to make money? (Not that I do, it's just hypothetical here.)
Because of organized crime? It's the ban on it that linked it to organized crime in the first place as it happens any time you ban a commodity you don't like (alcohol, drugs etc.). STDs? America doesn't even have public healthcare, I'm not even going to bother with the statistics, I'm just going to say
who cares (even if you want to mention Obama Care, that's a recent thing) and it's not like promiscuous young people aren't going to do it for free anyway. There are plenty of other reckless lifestyle choices that the government doesn't ban (and shouldn't ban).
Ah, silly me, it's because of Christian morality isn't it? Then again, Sweden is becoming a pretty atheistic country and doesn't allow it (*cough* sex-negative radical feminists *cough*). Likewise, it was Romanian communists (i.e. definitely not Christian) who banned it in Romania when they came to power (and abortion too), so clearly it's not exclusive to Christianity. I think it's exclusive to
bullshit authoritarian mentality.America, Europe, I don't care. The "free world" (which I agree, it is free... for the most part anyway) needs to start living up to that and legalize it. In fact any consenting private sexual act between adults (18+) should be included among human rights.