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Re:Should Prostitution Be a Crime? by refurb on Thursday May 05, 2016 @08:25PM (#11640783)
Whoa, wait a second. First you say cause and effect is backwards, so prohibition of prostitution resulted in the bad effects?

But then you say it made it more hazardous.

Those are two different things.

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Re:Should Prostitution Be a Crime? by stock_toaster on Thursday May 05, 2016 @11:03PM (#11641406)
Prohibition of alcohol certainly didn't make it safer! In fact it made it decidedly much less safe (people going blind/dying from methanol poisoning).

There were also other downsides, such as increase in gang power due to profits from alcohol running, sales. It seems like there would be similar parallels to prostitutions (gangs, pimps, etc).

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