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Re:Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Un... by excalibur on Thursday December 19, 2019 @08:49AM (#21834838)
There is no federal prohibition against prostitution like there is against marijuana. This can be effectively accomplished at the State or even local level. Talk to your representatives, start ballot initiatives.

Another avenue that may be worth exploring is opening brothels on reservations, similar to casinos.

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Re:Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Un... by blackearl on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:09AM (#21834981)
Rhode Island accidentally did it for a while.

(yes accidentally) - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/07/17/when-...

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Re:Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Un... by dragonwriter on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:15AM (#21835045)
> There is no federal prohibition against prostitution like there is against marijuana.

Not directly,at least applicable to the states, but there are a variety of federal prohibitions around the sex trade which complicate it, and there'd probably be federal will for a direct ban if most states didn't prohibit it entirely and the fee remaining didn't prohibit it in most of their territory. Neither major party broadly supports legalized prostitution, for superficially different reasons.

> Another avenue that may be worth exploring is opening brothels on reservations, similar to casinos.

Not possible without changes to federal law, federal law prohibits prostitution on tribal land, while casinos are regulated by federal law which allows them with tribal-state gaming compacts.

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