I am not aware that i ever attempted to make peoples moral choices for them, merely opened the debate up to look at it from another angle, as i have said, i clearly understand why people think legalisation would work, i am just putting another angle on it. I live in a country where there are loads of brothels, regulated and clean, they are not legal, but they are accepted, its not hard for any prostitute to work in one of these brothels. so effectively prostition in all but name is legal. so why when i go shopping do i see at least 15 to 20 working girls on the side of the road, some are young and innocent, and look like they desperately need a decent home and a new start, some have just been through the mill for so long, they have almost resided themselves to the fact that prostitution is all they are worth. I feel sad everytime i see them, I thank my lucky stars that i have not had to tread that path. prostitution is a desired proffesion by very few. it is a harsh result of a cruel and punishing drug addiction, pimp, broken family.

Only when we have tackled these issues, and cracked down hard on the scumbags that traffic this vile trade, can we think about legalising so that we can have proffesional sex workers..... For what its worth, i know this is an ideal, and my optimism sounds ridiculous, but i am prepared to strive for the ideal, and not settle for making do. I wonder how many people here have ever even spoken to a prostitute, or had a relative fall into it. I suspect not too many... Its so easy to sweep all the issus under the carpet and say that people would choose to do it safely if it were legalised.