Promoting prostitution as a career choice would lead to people from more vulnerable sectors of society getting into it more readily than they otherwise would have.

Most prostitutes take hard drugs as the result of trying to escape what they have started. They then find that they must continue selling sex in order to pay for their next fix.

The fact that prostitutes are not, on the whole, happy, content, well-educated people should be proof enough that this is not the kind of work we should look fondly on.

Anyone entering this business would, undoubtedly, require a lot of counselling to undo the emotional damage caused by selling sex to strangers.

Other services can be taxed that don't lead to the workers concerned spiralling into emotional turmoil.

That the war on drugs has been a failure has not led to the legalization of drugs around the world. Failure to prevent something is not an argument for legalizing it, more an incentive to examine the methods being employed to combat the problem. Most Western countries anti-prostitution laws focus on the prostitutes themselves, as they are the most visible target for police to take actions against and secure easy convictions. Any laws against kerb crawling are poorly enforced at best as it is much more difficult to obtain convictions for kerb crawling. This style of policing only creates a revolving door system of justice where prostitutes are soon back on the streets, continuing to employ their trade as they do not have the wherewithal to obtain lawful employment. Law reforms should decriminalize the sale of prostitution in favour of harsher sanctions on the purchase. This has a number of benefits in that there is now a disincentive in place for the clients where there was no real disincentive before, prostitutes no longer have a reason not to go to the police for fear of being arrested and it allows support services to work with prostitutes with a view to finding them a way out of the profession. This has had marked success in Sweden with no reason why it could not be employed in other countries.

NO ! you can not legalize something because you want people to pay tax for it or you feel people have been doing it for quite some century or so, Taking morality and ethics into consideration it is our society that is suffering and is been endangered by these young ladies. Beside many result into these to escape from poverty and most of them are always on drugs to keep them going and to hide away from the nightmare of the job that hunts them. Many broken homes has been as a result of this prostitute of a thing. It’s really a shameful act and most really be abolish. These young ladies deserve to have a better future like any other person in the society, not just roaming from one bed to another claiming they are doing something call social work or so. They need to be rehabilitated and given something else to do to earn a more mind peaceful earning they can wake up with it everyday of their life and be happy like everyone of us. These people are not happy , they do this thing out of frustration and to keep their family going. I will give an instance “over 20000 Nigerians girls are in prisons in three countries in Africa” because of something like this ,and we are not talking of those moving to Europe and else where ,all trying to escape poverty just to go and prostitute. The fact that it is practice sometime ago when the world was just growing or will I say developing and things are been put in place doesn’t meant it should be made legal. Imagine a prostitute who is married and have family and still go around doing her social work, then how are you sure the child is the legitimate child of the man she is married to ? …ok…I know you wont dare to marry a prostitute …why ? …are they not humans like us ? or should they be used and dump like used stuffs ?....I think its time the world come together and doing something about these. So that we can live together peacefully in a better society.