Children would not be allowed to participate in prostitution. Diseases are spread just as easily whether one pays for sex or not, so your argument fails. You also haven't shown cause and effect between prostitution and human trafficking. What is Holland's rate of human trafficking? I bet it's pretty low.
You fail to realize that with legalized Prostitution comes children and human trafficking. Hello, Thailand?
You're avoiding my argument by trying to take the back door way out. You ignore the fact that certain STD tests take 21 days to receive the results, and the customer could have the STD if not the prostitute. So for 21 days, that could be at least 50-100 clients infected which if you say 1/10 are married it spreads quickly.
Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery - Netherlands
Besides, you also take into account that you believe all prostitutes will suddenly quit working if they find a positive STD result. If that is their own line of work to feed themselves, what other choice do they have?
And from Netherland's Wikipedia page on Prostitution:
Prostitution in the Netherlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Netherlands is a primary country of destination for victims of human trafficking. Many of these are led to believe by organized criminals that they are being offered work in hotels or restaurants or in child care and are forced into prostitution with the threat or actual use of violence. Estimates of the number of victims vary from 1000 to 7000 on a yearly basis.Most police investigations on human trafficking concern legal sex businesses. All sectors of prostitution are well represented in these investigations, but particularly the window brothels are overrepresented.[7][8]
Over the years there has been a significant increase of registered Dutch victims of human trafficking. In 2005 23% of the persons registered at the Dutch Foundation Against Trafficking in Women were Dutch citizens.
In an effort to crack down on forced prostitution, a campaign encouraging clients to report signs of coercion. The poster has an eyecatching silhouette of a spike-heeled prostitute with long hair leaning back, but on closer inspection another picture reveals a gun being held to the female's head. The caption reads "Have you seen the signals? Fear, bruises, no 'pleasure' in the job." It then goes on to offer a phone number which clients can call anonymously. The poster can be found here: [1]
10 Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution by Janice G. Raymond, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women International, March 25 2003
The government of the Netherlands promotes itself as the champion of anti-trafficking policies and programs, yet cynically has removed every legal impediment to pimping, procurement and brothels. In the year 2000, the Dutch Ministry of Justice argued for a legal quota of foreign "sex workers," because the Dutch prostitution market demands a variety of "bodies" (Dutting, 2001: 16).
AEGiS-Chicago Tribune: Nevada's brothels get tough look: $50 million industry draws new,unflattering attention
Farley's study of Nevada's brothel industry drew on extensive interviews with 45 prostitutes in eight brothels. In her book, "Prostitution & Trafficking in Nevada: Making the Connections," she wrote that legal prostitutes in Nevada have rates of post-traumatic stress disorder about the same as combat veterans; that 81 percent are desperate to leave the lifestyle; that the women are made to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week; that brothel owners keep the bulk of their earnings; and that the women essentially are prisoners in these remote establishments.
Modbert: Mythbuster; taking down one at a time.
As you can see, Netherlands has a huge problem with human trafficking, Nevada isn't doing so well with Prostitutes, and places that have legal Prostitution are hot spots for human trafficking.
What's your next myth to refute Elvis?
Do you have a controlled experiment to prove your points? No
