I think you will find that bastardy is without stigma in the UK these days. More children here are born out of deadlock than within it.

I imagine that there is no more chance of elimination of prostitution (that is to say, the provision of sex for money and vice versa) than there is of eliminating masturbation or suicide. And indeed like masturbation but unlike suicide there seems to be no harm in the simple exchange of sex for money and vice versa. Unlike masturbation the side effects of prostitution may at first blush seem harmful, but are not the side effects in question the fruits of greed and capitalism and religion, rather than of the simple exchange of sex for money? Drug addiction is largely the product of greed and capitalism too.

And no, before you ask, I have never paid for sex, nor taken it violently or by other coercion, nor knowingly consorted with a prostitute.