Reply #84: Here's the post that started the branch:

[jeff47]

I support legal prostitution 100% this is different

Wow, that's a big pile of misogyny right there! And clearly the poster just wants to sweep trafficking and child prostitution under the rug...what with how he explicitly said it was not what he supported.

"Unfortunately for you, it's not getting much buzz"

Some of us like to use a discussion board for, shockingly enough, discussion. Not to pimp our causes (Look! A pun!!). As such we don't have some threshold of 'success' - we're here for the trip, not the destination.

"My advice?...Start your own thread on the legality of prostitution"

Been done many, many times. It always devolves into two camps:
Camp 1: All prostitutes are abused, under-aged, trafficked women on the street corner who are constantly being beaten by their pimp until either their pimp or their drug addiction kills them.

Camp 2: Women should be allowed to decide for themselves if they want to be prostitutes. Trafficking is covered by other statutes, such as kidnapping, which already contain far greater penalties than prostitution/pimping. And pushing prostitution underground by keeping it illegal makes it harder for prostitutes to seek help when/if they want it.

Fact is it's complicated. Legalization is not a panacea, and keeping it illegal has its own set of problems. But that will almost never be discussed in a prostitution thread. Both sides are so committed to their world view that that neither will admit the other has a point. So it's not worth the database space to create such a thread.

"-- keeping in mind, that, other considerations aside, the trafficking of young women makes it a lot HARDER to judge the "consensuality" of it all*."

Because keeping prostitution illegal has proven so effective at stopping trafficking...as the OP demonstrates.