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No, these phrases are the right ones and I used them in a very literal sense and deliberately. However, being obvious and not controversial does not imply that there isn't someone who doesn't (want to ) get it. That even happens with mathematical proofs. What annoys me, however, is that you committed the very same fallacy in your reply that I mentioned in the post you replied to - deliberately mixing up highly illegal human trafficking with prostitution in order to somehow argue against the legality of prostitution.

> There appears to be no correlation [...]

Citation needed - but in any case that wasn't the point and you know it. There is no sound argument why people shouldn't sell sex for money, besides religious and other ideological arguments which are not sound (otherwise, why not use them in mathematical proofs, too?). Usually at this point people with ulterior motives shift their rhetoric to arguing that the clients rather than the prostitutes are committing a crime - aka "the Swedish model", where you order a very expensive pizza and it gets delivered by an attractive woman. They then go on to lay out that those clients cause great harm. That's not true either, they cause small harm like in many other stressful customer-oriented jobs such as working as a stewardess. But I'm resting my case here. Suffices to say that going from very high income to zero in a short time is problematic...



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