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  1. 1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said:

     

    Definitely. The existing black market would certainly exist, but even if legal prices were higher, if the quality and quality-assurance was there (better situation, guilt-free, etc), then you'd likely see a huge portion of customers switch to them.

    I'm not saying the black market would be the problem. I'm saying that the newly legitimized and legal sex trade businesses would not be free from exploitation, coercion or trafficking. 

  2. 1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said:

     

    If there were brothels and house-visit escorts that were federally licensed and regulated and were cheaper than the black market, then yes it would. People said the same thing about the black market for marijuana in Colorado and how it would survive...and it's lost almost everything to the legal market since prices are cheaper and it's legal and convenient.

     

    No. The analogy doesn't work. In the marijuana industry, the marijuana plants don't get a choice about whether they participate. 

     

    If you remove trafficking, exploitation, and coercion (and especially if I'm including the coercion inherent within a capitalist economy here -- IE: you have to work at SOMETHING or you'll fucking starve) there are very, very few women who are willing to engage in sex trade work.  If you run a brothel, even if prostitution were legalized, the majority of women working for you would be either trafficked, coerced, or women who have no other choice due to some combination of: drug addictions, mental health and lack of education.

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