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Street hookers need protection, since it's a risky business.

The person theorizing about the positive effects of prostitution on violence may be implicitly holding something like a "bare branches" theory, which is wrong.

On the incentive of women to oppose prostitution (just as workers oppose scabs) see Baumeister et al's Sexual Economics: Sex as Female Resource for Exchange in Heterosexual Interactions. I'm refraining from linking to avoid tripping any spam filter, but you can find it online.

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I think that the best explanation for the length of you comment is that you haven't had a long term relationship with a prostitute. I did. It was fun for both of us. Lots of fun. It made us both happy. Happiness is a great destination. On the other hand, that could just be my cognitive bias.

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