Canadian Supreme Court rules prostitution laws unconstitutional.

[Mr Khan]

SlayerRondo said:

Mr Khan said:

outlawauron said:

Augen said:
If they are willing adult (18+) participants I have no issue. So, no pimps or trafficking.

This has little to no effect on trafficking, and if anything, makes it much easier.

This is what I was getting at Soleron.

More or less this. The markets for trafficked persons (unlike trafficked drugs) are rather different than the core market for legalized prostitution. Unlike with drugs, legalization tends to make things worse, not better.

I would disagree that legalization makes things worse as oposed to better.

Just go to Australia and compare the standard prostitute their to the standard prostitute in America and you will see that all making it illegal does is push prostitutes towards pimps, makes it harder to report abusive clients, has no regulation so its harder to stop the spread of STD's and puts people in jail for a victimless crime.

And legalization also reduces the demand for human traficking as a legal enterprize will want nothing to do with it as opposed to a pimp.

Logically i'm inclined to agree with you, however I seem to recall that research on this matter suggests that legalization does not stem human trafficking, and may in fact aggravate it, however it's a bit late for me to be doing research of any sort.