Reply #61: I go with the decriminalization or legalization advocates.

[bluestate10]

Trafficking works because the human beings being trafficked either know or are led to believe that they will be arrested and jailed if they go to police for protection. Removing criminal penalties for prostitutes unless they are caught working in restricted areas such as near schools and on neighborhood streets, give abused sex workers a window from which to escape their abusers. Prostitution is not a victim-less crime because societal laws and penalties are set to enforce the second class status of sex workers, many that are being abused and need laws that work to protect them.