dutar76
7th year itch
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Agreed.
I'll probably get ripped for saying this (or, better yet, schooled by someone who is more well-read on this topic than I am) but this is why prostitution needs to be legalized and closely regulated. If people want to commoditize their bodies, that should be up to them. But it seems to me that regulation would make for a healthier and less coercive life for the people who do. Then throw the book at the outliers. That is the type of thing that governments can do a lot better than the thousands of other things it tries to incompetently stick its nose in.
The government has tried and failed to sell the one thing that sells itself.
https://www.thoughtco.com/that-time-the-us-govt-tried-and-failed-to-run-a-brothel-3299415
This story has been told numerous times... but I don't think the government was set up at the time to handle such things. During the Clinton administration, the Mustang Ranch may have become an international franchise.