[CryptoPunk]

>>when do we expand that to adults who have no other choice? It’s not free will if your only other option is homelessness or to starve.

But depriving them of the option of providing sexual services for pay is not protecting them.

The alternative, as you point out, is homelessness or to starve, and they would only choose the option of prostitution when they perceive it as less undesirable than these outcomes.

So you'd be forcing people into circumstances that they perceive as worse than prostitution, since in every other case, they would not be choosing prostitution anyway.