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I agree that prostitution
I agree that prostitution should be decriminalized. But the first part of your article wasn't well thought out.
For instance you claim that the clients of prostitutes are men who can't get sex otherwise. Really? Most experts who have written about the dynamics of sex between men and women seem to agree that the more rich and powerful a man becomes, the easier it is for him to source a woman for sex. Do you really believe that the most powerful man in the state of New York couldn't source sex any other way hence his overture to a prostitute?
Further, the astronomically high prices for the services of the ladies in the ring of which Spitzer was a client, speaks to the nature of these clients. They obviously were rich and powerful men to be able to afford these services. Since rich and powerful men don't need to pay for sex, it's obviously not just the sex that they are paying for.
Maybe they are paying for sex with no strings attached. Maybe they are paying for the ability to completely let themselves go and indulge in fantasies they wouldn't dare do with their wives.
The use of prefessionsls isn't be any means limited to men who just "can't get it" anywhere else. That's a myth.