[quote=harvey]Personally I’m OK with legalization of prostitution and legalization of many recreational drugs given certain regulations. But I don’t believe we should ignore the tradeoffs on all issues.[/quote]Most libertarians would agree with you. Legalizing something doesn’t mean “free-for-all, do-what-you-want.” For instance, if cars were invented today, some people may want to make them illegal like cocaine or prostitution. Their argument would be “wait, if cars were legal, what’s to stop an 8-year old from driving clumsily and killing pedestrians?”
In most of Europe and Latin America prostitution is legal, yet you don’t see hookers walking down the streets soliciting business from minors. In fact, they work out of brothels located in designated zones (think industrial areas), must have health certificates, etc. There are of course, street hookers, but they are a minority, they risk being arrested, and they are not more prevalent than in the US (where the business is “illegal” but still takes place one way or another).
