Human trafficking and abuse of sex workers are a big problem in the United States right now, with full criminalization being the norm.

Full criminalization is clearly not an answer to that problem.

So why not look at different solutions? Why not examine societies that have found different, more effective answers?

I see you’ve already attracted one comment that implies women should not ever be sex workers, on what looks like feminist grounds. And of course it’s fine to advance an ideology, but regardless of what anyone thinks about feminism or sex workers in theory, we’re still going to have a problem with sex trafficking and abuse of women in sex work.

Unless we recognize that what we’re doing now isn’t working, and unless we decide to do something about it.