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I believe that prostitution is legal in licensed brothels and certain counties in Nevada, but I don't know the specifics. I'm not an expert either :)
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It is still legal in parts of the US. Certain counties in Nevada being one place. It was thought to be (and would be today even more so unless regulated by some kind of very diligent agency) a good way for diseases like gonorrhea, syphilis and other STD's to be spread. And they were spread that way of course. Also, it was often a front for mobs and other big crime organizations to "launder" money and distribute things other than sex, such as narcotics. Today, with AIDS and other highly contagious and "for life" diseases such as genital herpes, it would be unwise in my opinion, to allow them to be legal. We have enough of those diseases without having places where women and men with all kinds of health conditions (from 100% healthy to carriers of AIDS or other diseases) could work legally, without any proof or monitoring of their state of health.
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I believe that was proposed years and years ago. The current reasons are, where you find a hooker, theres a good chance you can find drugs, or dealers, the pimp. Also with the increase of HIV and Hep C, it has become more dangerous. So getting them off the streets, gets druggies off too, and men who pay for sex to pay for a woman's addiction.
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Prostitution was banned for both moral and health issues, organized religions played a major part in having it outlawed. Wikipedia has a detailed history as to why it was outlawed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution#18th_century_to_present
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I can't answer your question at all - so why am I typing you may ask. You appear interested so I just wanted to add that prostitution has recently been de-criminalised in New Zealand (note: not legalised). This means that sex workers of any kind are thus entitled to the rights that all employees in any other industry are - sick leave, maternity leave, annual leave, union representation etc. This has helped, in the opinion of some including me, clean up the industry and make it less seedy.
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