Reply #139: but in effect it would remain illegal, you know

[amazona]

There are plenty of legal brothels in Nevada, yet plenty of women prefer to work Vegas, where it's illegal. Illegal enterprise is more profitable for them after all -- no rules stopping them from robbing the customer, no health tests that might put them out of business, etc. No taxes to be paid on illegal income either.

I don't want it decriminalized because when you have prostitutes working in your neighborhood, you want them arrested and moved along. Otherwise, it's taking money out of MY pocket because it destroys the value of the neighborhood.

If prostitutes want to unionize and work out of a brothel somewhere it doesn't affect my property values, I have no objection. But I think most of us are being a tad hypocritical when we say legalize, because, to be honest, there is no way that we would tolerate our neighborhoods being zoned for whores. Heck, in my neighborhood a man got fined for doing some woodworking business out of his garage -- and he was an ex-cop! In many areas, just having a customer come to a zoned-residential area to do ANY business is a violation.