Is it time to legalize prostitution?

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61. Fine. Dont take my world for it.

Nee South Wales has 23 years experience of legal prostitution.

This University Report was presented to and accepted by a Conservative State Goverment 2012?

The decriminalisation of sex work in NSW – combined with a free market approach – has resulted in one of the healthiest sex industries ever documented, a report to NSW Health has found.

International authorities regard the NSW regulatory framework as best practice – the result of decades of partnership by government, community organisations, health workers and researchers, according to the report, The Sex Industry in New South Wales. ...

Lead author, Professor Basil Donovan from the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales, said the report showed that any moves to reintroduce bans or licensing of sex work would be a backward step.

“Jurisdictions that try to ban or license sex work always lose track as most of the industry slides into the shadows. Prostitution laws are the greatest allies of the exploiters. In NSW, by contrast, health and community workers have comprehensive access to and surveillance of the sex industry. That access has resulted in the healthiest sex industry ever documented.”

Decriminalisation of the industry in 1995 led to a dramatic reduction in police corruption and sex worker exploitation. “Is there still a ragged edge to the NSW sex industry? Of course, but the size of that ragged edge is much smaller than anywhere else,” Professor Donovan said.

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/sex-work-nsw-healthiest-world

Free market they means, no licensing, central register of prostitutes. Health includes, STDs, substance abuse, and mental health. For Example: -

Liberal laws, combined with structural and prosecutorial anti- corruption measures in the police force, widespread AIDS education, improved funding for STD services, the establishment of outreach Health Services and funding for prostitutes organisations appear to have resulted in certain positive changes: a reduction in the public order problems associated with the industry; a reduction in police corruption; a decentralisation of the industry; the proliferation of small groups of independent workers; an increase in the use of condoms and other safer sex practices; a reduction in the prevalence of STDs amongst prostitutes; and an awareness amongst prostitutes and the general community of the measures necessary to assist in HIV prevention.

https://aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/publications/proceedings/downloads/16-egger.pdf