Would decriminalization make prostitutes safer from rape and physical assaults?
Women can report rapes and assaults to the police under current laws. The problem is that the contempt and misogyny toward prostitutes stays the same, whether prostitution is legal or illegal. Women get raped in escort and brothel prostitution almost as often as in street prostitution, according to a number of studies. Almost everyone in prostitution was raped as a child before she got into it. Incest and rape are boot camp for prostitution.
