The kind of men who buy hookers SHOULD get good and sick.
The sad this is prostitution is legal there, so who knows how many of those woman are being trafficked. Arresting prostitutes saves so many women and girls.
Prostitution shouldn't be illegal... it's just an outright sale of what has always been sold...
It's not illegal the way libertarians think it's illegal.
Women get arrested and they either get help or get released. Its pimps/traffickers that get the jail time.
I had a friend(she actually died, committed suicide by heroin overdose) who ended up getting trafficked by her dealer. Over the course of 3 days, she had been raped more than 80 times.
She survived this because she was arrested.....along with two men that were trafficking her and dosing her(prostitution arrest). She able to tell them what was going on and they took her to the hospital. She was full of bruises and had serious internal injuries. She also ended up HIV positive.
She spent a few weeks in the hospital and was directed to mental health where she got some help.
Sadly 8 months later.....she relapsed and ended her life.
When I went through my life skills program I met a lot of women who were rescued via arrest. The goal isnt to charge prostitutes, it's to get traffickers and pimps(same thing really).....and its a very effective way to save women and girls from sex trafficking. And even those who are not being trafficked but just hooking due to drugs and homelessness......many have been able to get help because of the police.
I used to agree it was a dumb thing to have laws about... until I saw first hand just how depraved, unethical and abusive that world is. If it became legal there would be so much unchecked abuse and so many women and girls never found again.
Trafficking isnt just a border issue. It happens to women and girls right here in our cities and on our streets. Many women and girls are trafficked by family members and people they know. Many of the girls on the streets are not doing it because they want to.....and there is a lot abuse and coercion from pimps.
Being able to remove them off the street or out of clubs or where ever and get them separate from that environment is important to get them in touch with the proper channels for them to get the help they need.