All women are my sisters too, Eliza. And that is for sure. (I'm male.)

Prostitution, as gnu says, is an extremely lucrative career...if a woman has the smarts to discreetly manage it herself, and knows how to protect herself, then she can make a tremendous amount of money. Some do. And they do it quite willingly.

Those are cases entirely apart from the desperate homeless girls who end up being forced into a life of prostitution by drug-dealing, violent pimps.

The case of the willing prostitute is not a crime at all, in my opinion, it's a career choice (and in a certain sense, it's a public service). The latter IS a terrible crime on the part of the pimp, and those girls need rescuing...and the pimps need to be penalized to the full extent of the law.

The best way to protect women against pimps is to legalize prostitution and carefully regulate it in such a way as to fully protect those women from violence, intimidation, and disease.