Brazil to U.S.: Keep Your Money

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Alright, if we take everything else as being the same:

"Regulated prostitutes tend to be cleaner prostitutes. HIV-infected rates tend to be stratospheric among the nation's streetwalkers. In Newark, 57% of prostitutes were found to be HIV positive, according to a Congressional Quarterly report. In new York City, 35% of prostitutes were HIV-positive; in Washington, almost half."13

"In contrast, brothels, which are legal in 12 rural Nevada counties, tend to be comparative paragons of public safety. The University of California School of Public Health, at Berkeley, studied the health of legal Nevada brothel workers compared with that of jailed Nevada streetwalkers. None of the brothel workers had AIDS, while 6% of the unregulated streetwalkers did. Brothel owners had a strong incentive to police the health of their employees, since they could face liability if an infection were passed to a customer."

From: Bovard, J. Safeguard public health: legalize commercial sex. (argument in favor of legalizing prostitution.) Insight on the news. 11(9):18. Feb. 27, 1995.