Yes, gnu, it's sad. I applaud any lawmakers who try to do anything intelligent about prostitution. Obviously the old-fashioned approach was no good.

What bothers me is a different aspect - the public's fascination with characters like "The Godfather" (movie) or the Sopranos (TV show). If such productions showed the horrible ways such people get their money, their glamour would disappear immediately.

For example, in an article about health insurance, my newspaper mentioned a four-year-old in foster care. She was in it because her mother had sold her into prostitution so she could have money to buy drugs. God bless the people who saved that child from that.