[relics443]

I wouldn't be so quick to say it doesn't harm anyone else.

It's not so far fetched to imagine a married family man acting on an impulse to hire a prostitute. It's a situation where if one wasn't so easily available, he wouldn't have done it.

Not such a stretch of the imagination to imagine this person getting found out by family. Bam! Instant harm to multiple innocent people.

[darawk]

You're right, the availability of sex and sexuality is too much for men to handle. We should criminalize prostitution - and while we're at it, why not criminalize yoga pants? I know those are pretty tempting to me.

[relics443]

I think the question you mean to ask is why criminalize anything, and IMO that's out of the scope of this forum.

But once you receive the answer to your real question, the reason why prostitution is criminal, while yoga pants are not should be self evident.

[darawk]

Um, no. Things like murder are criminalized because they involve the infringement upon the rights of others against their will. Prostitution does not infringe upon anyone's rights against their will.

[relics443]

"Things like murder are criminalized because they involve the infringement upon the rights of others against their will."

Correct, that's why murder is criminalized, and not the reason why prostitution is criminalized.

[darawk]

...and the reason why prostitution is criminalized would be?