Legal availability of mutually consensual prostitution is a social responsibility...
Observing the correlation between sex crime rates in various countries (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics) in relationship to respective legality of prostitution (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_by_country), a per capita calculation reflects that America has a 3 times and Sweden has a 7 times higher incidence of sex crime as do Netherlands, Germany, Spain, or Portugal; the later permitting sex for sale.
In my opinion, governments operating under "moral" anti-prostitution agendas are behaving contrary to their claim; in fact, amoral, by not enacting realistic policies that have been shown to reduce sex crimes against humanity. What a present mess in America is the sexual harassment "witch hunt" - the public outcry against those who weren't able to control themselves because sexual desire overwhelmed capacity to distinguish the inappropriate - I'm sure many had no intention of causing harm; though harm they had. The
Rhode Island study shows that 40% of the problem might simply have vanished had prostitution been legally available.
I also suspect sexual aggression of the types recently exposed will dissipate in America for a few years hereafter as a result of #metoo awareness; but the high rate of sex crime will resurface as the underlying problem hasn't been resolved.
Statistical argument suffices to demonstrate that societies need to establish safe and controlled infrastructures to provide opportunities for we humans to satisfy primal sexual desire. Sex is as innate as eating; desires therefor being the fundamental drive by which nature furthers life on earth. You can't turn off needing to eat and you can't turn off wanting to interact passionately with another human being. As restaurants are permitted to offer food, it should be permitted for sex services to be offered in a similarly safe regulated fashion.
... Eric