[Cajundaddy]

MRM,
I can appreciate your perspective and I agree that prostitution has a dehumanizing effect. It always has and it always will. I do have a lot of trouble with your suggestion that legalizing it puts women at greater risk. Do you have any compelling data or studies that support that women are at significantly more risk, or areas of legal prostitution become more blighted in first world countries with reasonable regulation of legal prostitution (Nevada, Amsterdam, Germany) than similar areas where it is illegal (but practiced regularly by organized crime)? Without this it seems you are simply projecting your own personal values and judgements as seen through your own lens. If there are data and studies on this, the results should be clear and compelling.