@Jaicee
I've read what you wrote and your provided sources but it still leaves me a bit perplexed. When I'm reading these numbers and you drawing conclusions based on them the thing that always pops into my mind is "correlation does not imply causation". It does look grim, but specifically in the cases of prostitution and porn I would like to draw a parallel to the internet and general globalization.
A lot of things got worse thanks to the internet and the ease of moving goods, people and information across the world. It makes certain crimes easier and the enforcement of law a lot harder. Yet it's a very important thing and something that is literally impossible to roll back. Crimes in porn and prostitution increased but so did overall consumption. Without having numbers to back it up something tells me that crimes related to those fields have not linearly increased with the exponential increase of consumption. Which would mean a numerical increase but a proportional decrease and overall improvement of the environment and all people involved with it.
Of course it does not excuse the higher numbers, but what would you do about it? What's the end goal here? Clearly it cannot be a complete ban on prostitution and porn. Porn is a very special case for me because the vast majority of it is made by willing performers and and even an even bigger part does not involve the actual participation of females or humans at all, i.e. art. Sex is literally too big to control because it's a big part of the lives of the majority of the world's population. The only thing I can see is a further push for policies and the spreading of awareness, which is exactly the thing that countries who did legalize prostitution are trying to do.
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