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SHOULD PROSTITUTION BE LEGAL?

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This November San Francisco residents voted against decriminalizing prostitution. “Proposition K” would have eliminated the power of local law enforcement officers to go after prostitutes. In a live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores, prostitutes would have been able to walk the streets without fear of arrest. 


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DID YOU KNOW...

  • The National Task Force on Prostitution estimates more than 1 million people have worked as a prostitute in the U.S.
  • Nevada allows some legal prostitution. Under state law, certain counties are allowed to license and regulate brothels.
  • In Rhode Island, the act of sex for money is not illegal because there is no specific law that defines the buying and selling of sexual services. However, street solicitation and brothels are prohibited.
  • Each state in the U.S. has the power to decriminalize and/or legalize prostitution.

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