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.
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!