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by _uhtu 932 days ago
Most of those are consequences of it being illegal. Similar to how legalizing marijuana has drastically cut down on the illegal trade for it in the states where it's legal, you've actually just made a great argument for legalizing prostitution as a way to reduce human trafficking by pulling it out of the illegal ring.

The rest of those things are consequences of the economic system we live in, not the job it itself. I don't see people arguing for outlawing of electrician work because it draws in young people and is strongly correlated to physical health issues. The fact that people need to sell their bodies in order to survive is an established part of capitalism. Why then is the target of your banhammer specifically prostitution? Just because sex is icky?

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Women aren't plants; there's no such thing as kidnapping a plant and making it a slave. Your analogy is trash.
analogous compare dissimilar things with a common attribute

it is a cognitive deficiency if you cannot perceive the common attribute, or you ask for clarification from the person that made the analogy