Prostitution should be legalized

MrTTripz · 2025-04-22T15:05:54+00:00

Sex work is legal and heavily regulated in Germany. Pretty sure people still complain about dating over there.

Lift_and_Lurk · 2025-04-22T16:39:37+00:00

I’ve asked before but so far still haven’t gotten any answers back on this question:

Prostitution is legal in Nevada. Is there any data that shows any differences between the and the other states? I mean it; Is there anything that shows any comparison data?

It feels like there should be something saying “ the men are happier in NV due to this vs other states” if it’s making a discernible difference.

Not disparaging, I’m genuinely curious

Extinction00 · 2025-04-22T15:48:50+00:00

I recently changed my mind about this bc STDs and STIs exist. We can’t test for all of them and many have no cures like HPV. And everyone gets HPV at least once in their lifetime.

If we restricted people during covid to stop covid from spreading doesn’t the same logic applies here?

84JPG · 2025-04-22T17:36:23+00:00

Prostitution should be legal because my taxes shouldn’t be wasted on investigating and punishing people exchanging money for sex.

I’m skeptical that things would change significantly. I don’t think for most men the decision to see prostitutes or not is based on legality.

No-Boysenberry-6685 · 2025-04-22T15:40:37+00:00

i think you're over estimating how much men want sex and nothing else. It absolutely would not solve the dating crisis

FairwayBliss · 2025-04-22T21:42:12+00:00

Hi, I’m from Amsterdam. You might be familiar with our famous red light district and lax laws surrounding prostitution. I am very sure we have loads and loads of lonely men on the apps, looking for both love and sex. Just as in real f2f life.

I got to date around for a few years, and boy do we have some special guys over here. That would not even be aided with publicly funded prostition. And we live in a country where it’s fairly normal to ask a guy if he’s over 6’0 tall.

nonquitt · 2025-04-23T05:52:22+00:00

Sex work is very complex. No woman wants to do it, but some will if they feel it is their best option. Right off the bat, uncomfortable. Sex workers are reviled in society, but also sex work is consumed every day by men of every population segment. Very few if any sex workers would want their daughter to do it.

In many circles, doing sex work would be reducing your status to zero in exchange for money. Who would want that?

What if someone’s check bounces? Is that rape or theft? This is an old joke ofc but it is also illustrative of one of the many social paradigms that becomes complicated by the topic of sex work. Our society has separated work and sex, and to unite them asks many uncomfortable questions. Complex topic all around

“Tax and regulate it” is often the refrain but it’s not like there’s an all knowing god that oversees taxation and regulation. That’s just begging the question and kicking the can to someone else to solve.

justdontsashay · 2025-04-22T15:10:58+00:00

You’re not arguing that it should be legal, you’re arguing that prostitutes should be more attractive. Legalizing it won’t stop them from being pale lol

BobtheArcher2018 · 2025-04-22T17:11:24+00:00

The issue of prostitution is eternal. Not gonna solve it here. But let's remember that if it is a necessary evil, it is still evil. And even if necessary, it is necessary for other reasons. Legalizing it won't have a huge impact on gender dynamics at scale, not without a lot of other cultural changes.

atmos2022 · 2025-04-23T13:54:55+00:00

I agree but for different reasons.

The only difference between Prostitution and Pornography is someone there with a camera.

Prostitution: a person receives monetary payment in exchange for sexual favors

Pornography: one or more people receive monetary payment in exchange for the filmography of sexual favors

Seems odd that I could legally pay a random person off the street to engage in sexual relations in front of my camera, but could not legally pay a random person off the street to engage in sexual relations unless I film it.

leosandlattes · 2025-04-22T15:13:49+00:00

I have a friend in the Netherlands who works for the govt. Prostitution there is legalized and regulated. Still, he tells me trafficking and pimping is a big problem. A lot of those women are brought from other countries under the promise of other work, then they have their passports taken and are forced to be prostitutes.

Prostitution will still be shamed among society even when legal. It takes a certain personality type and emotional/mental fortitude to be a prostitute, and most women do not have that. Most women will choose other work before ever being a prostitute.

And given the popularity of Only Fans, women who want the potential income stream of sex work will continue to do that instead of prostitution. You never ever have to touch a man when doing Only Fans, you don’t have to deal with being in a strange man’s proximity and therefore less physical danger. You can even hire chatters to do the interacting for you so that you don’t actually have to talk to men once your account is large enough.

Vikklee · 2025-04-22T15:53:40+00:00

Prostitution isn’t safe for women and never will be. In countries where it’s legalized and “regulated”, the majority of sex workers report being abused and wanting to leave the industry. It’s a predatory industry that is fueled on women in desperate circumstances who will endure abuse and diseases to provide for themselves and their families. It’s not a glorious or remotely feminist industry.

Also, if men no longer have to be nice to women to get sex and relationships, I dread how they’ll act lol.

kreatr · 2025-04-22T16:20:06+00:00

LOL men would keep looking for casual sex with normal women because sex with prostitutes and the whole experience is basically crap, is this sub even serious?

Sorprenda · 2025-04-22T16:57:26+00:00

You're describing a "market clearing" hypothesis - the idea that if we separate the markets for sex and companionship more cleanly, we'd get better matching in both.

I'm very skeptical of any top-down solution to what is fundamentally a crisis of connection. Treating people as rational actors with fixed preferences rarely works in the real world. First, the idea that "men want sex, women want relationships" is vastly oversimplified, and second, the problem of people claiming to want one thing while actually seeking another often causes tremendous emotional damage.

Ace2Face · 2025-04-22T19:41:18+00:00

Prostituion is illegal because of
1. Religious people who love imposing their sky daddy values on everyone else
2. Women who hate the idea that a man can just pay for sex

Flightlessbirbz · 2025-04-22T23:00:23+00:00

I don’t think it’s legality that’s stopping men who just want sex from hiring prostitutes. It’s the fact they don’t want to pay for it, that hurts their egos and their wallets.

SherbertDense1415 · 2025-04-23T04:43:12+00:00

You can go buy hookers right now if you want to. What would legalizing it change

Usual-Vermicelli-867 · 2025-04-23T06:40:24+00:00

True..its practically legal in most countries as the polics tend to ignore it

Like ya sometimes there is a temporary push against prostetuion .then the police (probably) is going to focus on it more for a few months then they will it alone .mybe a law will be made but I dont know

its like weed..just make it legal..most people buy and use weed freely (even police man).i a month ago ordered my first weed order from telegram..30 minets later they delivered me(after i sayed to them to take there time because i didn't had cash)

ErenYeagerwasright · 2025-04-24T01:50:10+00:00

In the Netherlands prostitution is legal, yet we still have the same dating problems in the Netherlands. It's about validation, how would you get validation paying for sex, while sexy bad boys get it for free?

Tweezers666 · 2025-04-24T04:28:19+00:00

Why do men feel entitled to the commodification of women’s bodies?

Women’s bodies aren’t a market niche to tap into.

DeepHouseDJ007 · 2025-04-24T05:30:39+00:00

I’ve never paid for sex in my life and I don’t intend to. And if I did, it certainly wouldn’t scratch that “itch” for me because to me a huge part of the excitement of having sex with a woman is knowing that she’s as thirsty for me as I am for her and seeing that look of desire in her eyes as she’s tearing my clothes off me. I couldn’t be with a woman who doesn’t have that level of intensity and passion for me, and if I did I’d probably walk out of there feeling absolutely horrible.

Outside_Memory5703 · 2025-04-22T15:12:24+00:00

Trafficking says otherwise. As does the effects of legalized prostitution

empireofadhd · 2025-04-22T19:53:50+00:00

I’ve never had a girlfriend and I’m middle age and depressed over it. But I think prostitution wrong and should be illegal.

No matter how sad I am about living an entire life without sex and intimacy, it does not make it right to exploit someone else’s situation.

Most people who are healthy and capable and have options would not go into prostitution. The ones who don’t have a choice should not be exploited.

There are lots of options nowadays for people like me: sex dolls and vr avatars etc.

Bulky_Analyst_9168 · 2025-04-22T15:42:33+00:00

In Finland, it's legal to buy/sell sex between consenting adults. Illegal is only to buy (or even try to buy) from under-age or victim of human trafficing. Selling is illegal only at public places.

Yet men are still complaining all the time. If you suggest them to just visit a professional, they get in full rage for the idea they'd had to PAY for intimacy.

So no, it doesn't solve the men's problems. It does give protection for sex workers tho, which is very good thing. I think those who are willing to pay for intimacy, have it quite easy to find ethical solution, since there is professionals who have their own websites and who pays their taxes and you can be sure they are doing it because they want to, not because they are forced to it. There is still of course also trafficing, but with normal brain activity you can tell when it's shady and suspect the worker is not doing it from her free will.

DenverKim · 2025-04-22T20:01:47+00:00

It should absolutely be legalized. Tax it and regulate it. Just like everything else.

TappedFrame88 · 2025-04-22T16:38:01+00:00

Just buy a body pillow or a blow up doll

No reason we need to legalize an industry that abuses underage/economically disadvantaged woman with large human trafficking problems all under government supervision.

The best way to tackle these abuses isn’t to become complicit in them, but to fight them. No reason to enter a gansters industry, take out the gangster.

Its why despite the hooplah around prohibition being a bust, it did its job of lowering average drinking in the states. Some better, REAL enforcement and the lack of a crippling economic catastrophe might have seen it do more good.

Kaisern · 2025-04-22T18:01:12+00:00

I don’t think it would change much, even if it was normalized and men frequented prossies a lot

Okay so the bottom half of women’s attention/matches/men approaching would be cut off because those would visit hookers instead. Would women care? Not really, they’re hypergamous, they didn’t care about those men in the first place. The only women it may shake up are the very bottom - maybe

notonce56 · 2025-04-22T15:16:53+00:00

So you want to solve the problem of men objectifying women with opening another way for them to objectify women? Why not change the society so that it's easier for women to avoid this manipulation and people who use relationships just for sex are criticized more?

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InitialAd4125 · 2025-04-22T15:16:17+00:00

Legalize and nationalize it.

chobolicious88 · 2025-04-22T17:20:29+00:00

Prostitution is easily accessable in countries even where its not legal. Its literally 3 clicks away on a random website

kochIndustriesRussia · 2025-04-22T22:22:18+00:00

They're are plenty of places where it is. Just go there.

KhadgarIsaDreadlord · 2025-04-22T23:41:56+00:00

Agree with the tiltle and disagree with everything else at large.

Prostitution should be legalised becouse the alternative is worse for both the seller and the buyer. If that's not enough to convince you then it's also better for society at large. Less sex trafficing, less sex crimes, a regulated and taxed economy around sex work.

It's also worth noting that prostitution will be perpetuated and present as long as humans are around so we might aswell regulate it to be less harmful than it needs to be.

Am from a country where it's legal and most people are not even aware that it is. Prostitution is still looked down on and so are men who visit prostitutes. Despite legality it's not a line of work normal people engage with and if they do I think they have more important issues to tackle than not getting any.

PhaseExtra1132 · 2025-04-23T00:34:57+00:00

Every time this happens the number of human trafficking spikes in a country because the underground pumps are able to be more bold act more in the open and the courts are hindered because now every case has to be doubted. “Is the someone who’s being abused or just another disgruntled employee looking to sue”.

PrideAndPotions · 2025-04-23T01:33:51+00:00

As I mentioned in other posts on reddit, there would have to be protections in place for the prostitutes. Basically, cannot be a job that prevents the prostitute from ever getting a different job. EEO level of protection.

Also, it has to be recognized that it is not like any other job. Down on your luck and employment service is trying to find you a job? You can't be pressured into taking it or being blackballed or told they can't find you anything else.

That doesn't even get into pregnancy. Does the child not deserve child support if other children of non-prostitutes are entitled?

These are just a few points that have to be considered. Probably a thousand more. Age limit? What about non minors pretending to be minors for the john's titliation? What about rape and assault? What about pressuring the prostitute into getting any abortion? Etc.

In a nutshell, I strongly feel if the goal is to legalize prostitution, the prostitute has to be protected even more so than the john. And these protections are far from simple to put into effect.

musicissoulfood · 2025-04-23T04:06:55+00:00

Isn't tinder an app for legalized prostitution? Could have fooled me...

SteveSan82 · 2025-04-23T06:42:53+00:00

Already is. It’s called OF

cuminciderolnyt · 2025-04-23T09:02:58+00:00

Its not the prostitution being illegal thats being the issue.. prostitutes not being cheap is the issue.

There is a reason behind this

1) prostitution carries heavy risks regarding personal health and safety in general so people are not too fond of engaging in it

2)Prostitution is heavily stigmatized, both for the client and the provider. Ergo people usually practice it on the down low

3) Most women do not wish to engage in prostitution due to the above reason which prevents them from actively participating in it or raising the standards absurdly high to avoid risks which often includes high prices. An hourly rate for a prostitute is often high than the hourly amount of money you would get for certain high paying jobs

even if we were to legalize it, the above factors would make it hard for men to access prostitution to fix their sexual frustration

this however goes all the way down when economy goes bust of when a womans life is hit by some serious financial strain

But in a hypothetical situation where prostitution is legal, destigmatized, available and affordable.... most men would absolutely go for a hooker than porn

i dont think most women would like that outcome

_here_ok · 2025-04-23T17:13:20+00:00

Prostitution shouldn't be legalized for the reasons you mentioned because Men already do that.

It's in such high demand that it's an illegal market. It's akin to how probation didn't end alcohol consumption or buying. It should be legalized however for the safety of individuals who partake in such.

These types of markets being legalized allow for people in desperate need of help to seek it and allow for regulations.

Besides the problem isn't sex but intimacy. Men disguise the need for intimacy under the need for sex. There's many who do so for ego over sex, the ones who want to say they "laid the pipe" on someone who they viewed as a challenge and those are the ones women worry about. Meanwhile the ones who have fulfilling relationships do so under intimacy because a partner is someone we can be intimate and vulnerable with.

pieperson5571 · 2025-04-23T22:14:56+00:00

Let's do that, instead of giving it away for free.

Updateme.

SadMouse410 · 2025-04-24T04:32:45+00:00

It is legal in many countries, maybe just not in your country

Redhotangelxxx · 2025-04-24T06:42:06+00:00

It is time we liberate male libido from the grips of normal women wanting serious. Enough damage has been done.

Nope. How do you know the person doing the work is doing it because they love to do it and not because they're actually an addict, in a no choice situation or have a pimp/are being trafficked? How do you suggest those women then find a satisfying relationship when there's virtually no man (as it has been made abundantly clear on this forum) who would want to date a prostitute? Their sex lives and intimacy will then be reduced to just getting paid for helping random men with their lack of sex? Countries with legalized prostitution do have massive issues with human trafficking.

This still doesn't help with difficulty for men to find relationships, as most women don't want to date men who see consent as something that can be bought for money - which prompts these men who have bought sex to either be lonely, or lie to their partners. And as has also been made clear here, men want sex because they want intimacy and to feel desired. Paying someone to pretend to be into you is not a valid alternative.

EducationPatient4622 · 2025-04-24T10:16:20+00:00

Another woman/man can decide she wants to sell her body for a price.

Alcohol, weed, is like sex, they legalized it but not prostitution.

EducationPatient4622 · 2025-04-24T10:17:52+00:00

Most women are thirsty for the top 10% of men unfortunately. Thats a fact, so people adapt without changing who they are, because changing isnt always worth the woman.

EducationPatient4622 · 2025-04-24T10:20:45+00:00

Some men dont want to pretend they want to know her.

Besides, most men make the woman drink to bed her, which is shady af if you ask me.

EducationPatient4622 · 2025-04-24T10:21:55+00:00

Assuming women would never do sex work by their own choice is propaganda. Theres all kinds of people.

Lets leave christian values in the church.

catdog8020 · 2025-04-24T20:56:33+00:00

In Europe it’s legal but in American we’re to puritanical. I wish it was legal you guys in Europe are allowed to be men. In America our politicians are anti-sex and anti-masculinity and are so out of touch with men’s issues it’s ridiculous.

catdog8020 · 2025-04-25T02:34:31+00:00

Because of Jesus

Gold_Supermarket1956 · 2025-04-28T02:58:01+00:00

Wrong a crazy amount of women want relationships with affluent men

maxkar22 · 2025-05-24T04:09:41+00:00

No, prostitution should not be legalized — any form of sex work should eventually be banned.

This isn’t about shaming individuals. It’s about questioning what we, as a society, choose to accept and normalize.

Many modern-day feminists and liberal voices may oppose this view. They’ll argue it’s about “choice” or “empowerment.” But let’s be honest — how many people truly dream of selling their bodies to survive? How many children say, “I want to be a prostitute when I grow up”?

Just because a practice is ancient doesn’t make it right. Slavery was age-old. So was child labor. We abolished them because we evolved morally. Why should prostitution be any different?

We’ve made immense progress in science, technology, and human rights — yet we’re still defending one of the oldest forms of human degradation?

Men and women deserve better. They deserve dignity, opportunity, and real support — through education, job training, mental health services, and compassionate intervention.

Legalizing sex work doesn’t solve the problem — it simply masks it. Let’s stop calling desperation “empowerment.” Let’s stop building systems around survival and start building them around hope.

We may not end it overnight. But we can start today — by refusing to call wrong “right” just because it’s old.

nonquitt · 2025-04-22T17:17:48+00:00

Honestly I agree that if I could “pay her to leave” I totally would. The problem is I find it inherently exploitative.

No one wants their daughter to be a sex worker. Even sex workers don’t want that for their kids. Sure sure all work is exploitative, but the fact is there always has been, is, and always will be a significant incremental discomfort with sex work.

I don’t know that legalization would help people who have trouble dating though.

maomaochair · 2025-04-22T19:41:30+00:00

Legalizing prostitution will alliviate the immbalance power in dating market.

Meanwhile, government should also subsidize male to make prostitution affordable.

It is not harmful to women as well, since prostitution is still a decent, safe jobs compare to other high mortality, high risk and tought jobs.

Angryspazz · 2025-04-22T16:06:06+00:00

It's kinda sad to be on the side of men who can't just say I don't want a relationship I just want sex, certain people would be into that if you said it up front

TimberGoingDown · 2025-04-22T18:06:14+00:00

The draw of sex for most men is the idea of being "chosen" or "worthy." That this woman chose you over all of her other options because she thought that you were the best.

Paying for it negates that entire rush.

Low-Sympathy-3796 · 2025-04-22T15:30:15+00:00

Ah yes, the noble crusade for legalization. Definitely not just a thinly veiled Yelp review of prostitutes. Glad we’re prioritizing the pale smokers over actual legal reform. Clearly this is about policy and not personal grievances at all.

growframe · 2025-04-22T15:50:29+00:00

Prostitution could solve the dating crisis by removing the men looking for sex and leave only the ones looking for love on the dating apps.

This isn't a "crisis" and even if it was, this would not be a solution.

It is time we liberate male libido from the grips of normal women wanting serious.

Male libido is by and large diametrically opposed to the idea of buying sex. The legality of prostitution would have a miniscule effect on the relevant dating market.

katsnushi · 2025-04-22T17:50:49+00:00

All prostitution does is degrade the seller and consumer. It encourages low-value behavior on both sides and in turn damages future potential for a real relationship (just like OF/pornography does). At the end of the day women suffer most from sex work, too, and as a SWERF woman that’s important to me

Financial_Leave4411 · 2025-04-22T16:24:05+00:00

Things are fine how they are. There are places in the world where prostitution is legal and any guy that wants to participate can go on vacation there and pay for the experience. If a guy can’t afford to do that then there’s a cheaper option that you’ve already mentioned with OF; which is better than prostitution because it’s more accessible to men since it’s online, cheaper than both travel and prostitution prices since most men are too poor to afford the in person experience and safer for women since they don’t have to be physically touched by men or even see the icky men on the other side of the screen. Women also get to keep more of the money since they don’t have to commute or pay club fees.

Men wanting prostitution everywhere are simply looking to make the market saturated to try to get cheaper prices which isn’t good for women. It’s like lots of men trying to buy a Lamborghini for a dollar; no matter how many men want a Lamborghini the company simply will not produce that many Lamborghinis to make them that cheap. Similarly women would be stupid to offer that much cheap sex so that a sex worker has to work two or three times as much to make just as much or less money than she currently would. The goal for any employee or entrepreneur is to work as little as possible while making as much money as possible. The scarcity is good; have less sex and make more money.

Sharp_Engineering379 · 2025-04-22T17:31:20+00:00

How many men actually want to pay women to pretend to enjoy having sex with him?

Don't most men prefer women who actually desire them? Don't most men have dignity?

Successful-Wheel4768 · 2025-04-22T18:21:30+00:00

Men want to be loved and sexually desired.

Glorious_Mane · 2025-04-22T19:50:57+00:00

There are several places where prostitution is legalized and even normalized. Where has it led to this “solution” you’re proposing?

l3xluthier · 2025-04-22T19:54:28+00:00

I never understand why dudes post here basically admitting they don't understand dating : relationships : intimacy : sex.

Instead of poorly written postulations, why not just make a post asking people to give you advice on how to be more successful in healthy ways of satisfying one's libido. OPs entire comment/post history is demonstrative in assuming us he has very little experience (which is totally fine ofc) while attempting to sound confident in his prurient assumptions. None of these bros will ever come clean w admitting their age either- if that tells you anything 😆

Op you think weed plugs close up shop in cannabis legal states?

TechnicalMiddle8205 · 2025-04-22T15:57:49+00:00

A crazy amount of men just want sex. Whereas a crazy amount of women want serious relationships.

False. Another one who fell for the classic cliche that men use women for sex and deceive the pure and innocent women. In reality, it is proven that there are even more men interested in relationships than women. But then... How is this next statement possible?:

Because the demand is crazy obvious. Men are paying insane anounts of money for pictures and videos on OF. Ignoring demand, will only benefit the niche suppliers.

This is probably why people think men are more interested in sex and horny than women. But the reality is that while both are this way, womens standarts are much, much higher than mens. In reality, both men and women "IN AVERAGE" have the same amount of sex; the top 10% of men get A LOT of sex while the rest barely get any, while all women have a more compensated average. This classic picture will sum it up

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HammieFondler · 2025-04-22T17:14:28+00:00

Prostitution should be legal; soliciting or managing prostitutes should be illegal. Sex requires enthusiastic consent. Under capitalism, no one consents to labor (we are coerced with the other option being starvation), and definitely not enthusiastically. So soliciting sex work is unethical under capitalism no matter how well you regulate it.

If humanity ever reached a point where we no longer have to work to live, and we could guarantee that the only people who chose to do sex work are those who actually want to do it, then it'd be ok to solicit sex workers, but the conditions would need to radically change. The conditions for giving/revoking consent need to be the same as regular sex, none of this "I paid you $45 now I own you for the hour" crap.

Title	Prostitution should be legalized
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Date	April 22, 2025 2:31 PM UTC (1 year ago)
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