It's Time to Legalize ProstitutionProstitution has long been considered the oldest profession in the world. For as long as we have data, it is possible to find evidence of people selling sex for some sort of gain. When the settlers were running around slaughtering the natives, they were also enjoying the pleasures of local prostitutes. In the 4th century, the Athenian orator Apollodoros declared "we have courtesans for pleasure and concubines for the daily service of our bodies, but wives to produce legitimate offspring and to have reliable guardians of our domestic goods." And yet, in "progressive" America, the country where we claim to be the most socially advanced, prostitution is an illegal act which results in sheltering rapists, drug dealers and abusers. Legalizing prostitution could solve a lot of the problems caused by it being illegal, but those old rich white guys in Washington are unlikely to make the change. They prefer to ignore the problem, sometimes making the symbolic gesture to try to end it completely. Reality check my friends, if prostitution has been around for this long it will go nowhere. You can impose more laws, increase penalties, even do like Minnesota and publish people arrested for prostitution (not those just convicted) and post their photos on the Internet, but you are not going to change reality . Nevada has already seen the light... why not the rest of the country? If this country legalized prostitution, we could make a fortune while improving the health of our country and the "character" behind it all. Look at Nevada. Let's take prostitution off the streets by requiring that services be offered in a brothel or on appropriate websites. As for ordinary prostitutes, arrest them for soliciting, but just for soliciting, without attacking prostitution any further. Change the law to require the use of condoms and regular health checks and AIDS tests. Where prostitution is legal in Nevada, the number of AIDS cases among workers is now down to zero (where illegal prostitutes have exceeded 25% infection...that's a one in four chance of paying to contract AIDS). , prostitutes will no longer be afraid to go to the police when they are raped or beaten.