If legalization reduces sexual and state violence, incarceration rates, and venereal diseases, and enables impoverished women to provide for themselves and their families, then clearly it is more efficient to legalize it. After all, every social harm is a drain on society and, therefore, an inefficiency.11 There are considerable problems with our justice system, but left out of this logic is the question of whether there may be some nonquantifiable moral reason for opposing prostitution. This question is not worth answering, however, because if it cannot be measured, we cannot publicly debate
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