>fines, licencing
Are you a retard? That is the prostitution market and prostitution consumers paying.
This is litterally the opposite of a financial burden to you if yoy don't seek prostitution yoyrself.
>social degredation
An abstract concept you would have to measure on why its presense in a legal and regulatef capacity would be worse.
This is the same "muh degeneracy" argument that encouraged Alchohol Prohibition.
>loss of retail space
Jesus fuck how many brothels do you think there would be? You can just fit what we already do with strip clubs. It isn't going to be between a RadioShack and a WholeFoods.
>Std checks, whats that based on?
Litterally every legal practice of prostitution at official locations in the developed world, including the legal American ones.
>Nuh uh, the market would still exist.
You dense motherfucker.
Exist =/= same degree of profitability.
But it would obviously be effected. Jesus fuck what part of supply and demand do you not understand.
Prohibition had an effect on Alchohol consumption, it actually went up, was more poisonous per litre than what used ti be regulated brewing standards, and had more social costs.
But it appeased muh degeneracy types so there is that.
Legslizing prostitution, just like alchohol, would reduce the ills.
By ills i mean actual, measurable harms. Not your feelings.
It would reduce human trafficking.
>Fewer people will go thtough the trouble of forming real relationships with women if they can just fuck someone for cash.
Marriage is already dead if you think its only lasting foundation is a government drafted contract with some expectance of fucking.
That is not why people get married.
>Legalizing pot has just made poverty issues worse.
Citation needed.
Note: annecdotes of people losing jobs because of federal regulations imposed on employers is an ill caused by its federal prohibition, not the state legalization.