Do You Think It's a Good Idea to Decriminalize Prostitution?

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i feel like these discussions of the magnitudes are often absent in these kinds of conversations. And that on the prostitution, wind you just decriminalize it and regulate it as an industry just to avoid abuse and fraud and things like that. The argument against am de criminalizing sex work that i really can't stand is the argument that it a degrades you as a person to engage in sex work. I don't understand how this is different because we have a lot of baggage as a culture about sexnd. Some people do feel more degraded by being objectified sexually than being objectified in non sexual ways.

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