Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec View Post
I'm quite aware that prostitution in the Netherlands isn't the best work environment ever, allthough I admit I don't know anything about it except general knowledge. And I join CountArach in not understanding your arguments at all- for starters,

1) why should legalized prostitution be more expensive? It shouldn't be, unless it's seriously overtaxed
2) for those prostitutes operating outside the law, why would they be worse off if they have competition from legal prostitution?
Smoking is legal, but there is still a thriving black market. Prostitutes are either self-employed or they have pimps. My guess is that most of the pretty ones are unready well paid and self employed, their margins go up, they put the prices up, they spend a bit more time at the gym, eat more citrus fruit. The pimps? They beat the whores more because the prices have gone up, or they don't go legal and they suck in formally independant prostitues to their brothals because they can't afford to put their prices up. Don't forget, quite a few women on the game have habits to fund or can't manage to find other work.

What Frag is saying is that legalising it doesn't get rid of the ugle underbelly, it just distracts you from it.