Edit to add my opinion so I’m not just replying “I agree” to 90% of comments. I think it should be legal, properly regulated, taxed and viewed as a profession. I haven’t personally engaged in it but I have no moral objection to it. I do hate the common sentiment that it was the individual’s “only option” though.
I have no opinion. Never tried it.
I do worry more than a few prostitutes may not be that willing to do that, though.
It’s very common but also very disingenuous to conflate sex work with human trafficking. While the connection certainly exists, it’s basically caused by the prohibition of sex work, rather than by sex work itself. By pushing it underground, you attract criminal elements, which is where the association of sex work with crime comes from. Fighting human trafficking is a very thorny problem but criminalising the victims never helps.
That’s why it should be regulated. They should make it more appeasing to a worker who solicits sex in a safe and regulated setting than behind a 7-11 for $20.
I get it. It’s likely that women working the streets are likely fueling an addiction. These people should be helped instead of arrested. The Johns paying them should suffer some sort of punitive damages, but someone may not choose a back alley setting when a safe and regulated one exists.
As far as I understand, nowadays in France customers will be targeted/harassed by the police, not the prostitutes themselves. Not anymore, at least.
Mais, oui!