Canada Supreme Court Strikes Down All Current Restrictions on Prostitution

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102. But as has been argued here often, it often is not consenting adults, and the buyers don't

have any way of knowing when they are dealing with consenting adults, and in areas where prostitution is more legally accessible, trafficking increases and the incidence of the selling of non-consenting adults increases.

I don't think it is my place to tell people what to do with their bodies either. People here love to use the intellectually lazy argument that objections to the legalization of prostitution are just a result of prudishness. That isn't the issue, and it is a position that willfully ignores what we know about the coincidence of legalization and exploitation.

If it were a matter of mutually desireable sexual expression, no one would care. It is a matter of the trafficking of human beings. There has been no system devised yet that allows people to commodify sexuality without exploitation of those who are commodified.

So the question is, do you think that anyone's sexual self-expression is so important that it needs to be satisfied at all costs, even if a byproduct of satisfying it is the enslavement of another person? I don't think it is.