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Let's use prohibition since it's been brought up but, let's compare it ina valid way. When prohibition ended, so did speakeasies and moonshine....why would it still be around....how could it even exist after prohibition ended and why, what purpose would it serve when it was easy enough to own a bar and sell alcohol that everyone liked to drink (tasted good).
All those things you're talking about with alcohol, don't apply to prostitution...especially if it were made legal and regulated. If it did then we better all stop having sex whether it's being paid for or not....lol. What ever does go on with prostitution that is a problem, could then be taken care of by the authorities with a phone call (which normally would be a problem since the place they're being summoned to is illegal).
Prohibition was never enforced with any real effort. It was a federal law that banned the distribution of it for sale to the public. It wasn't illegal to possess or consume....people could still make their own wine and wiskey for personal usage. The only officers they had to enforce it were federal ones and they were far and few for what would have been necessary.....cities, towns, counties and municipalities weren't interested in finding money to hire more police to enfore a federal law that wasn't in their jurisdiction.
Just for your knowledge, the reason prohibition started was because of a movement that mothers formed and rallied for. What had happened was that, owning a neighborhood bar had become the number one work at home business basically. After the west had expanded, people were coming back to the east coast and cities like NY had an outrageous number of bars popping up on every street corner and in between too (I might be wrong but, I think it was one for every four people). Well bars back then were actually called saloons, right....that meant prostitution, gambling and fights as well as there being no legal drinking age back then too. This was starting to happen in every neighborhood where children would be outside playing all day when they weren't at school. This is why the mothers organized to put an end to it and it became a campaign issue that ended up happening.
Since it was Americas drug though, it just went underground....there was way too much money involved in it. The power that America's drug dealers (distillers, brewers, etc.) had and their money, along with the failure to effectively enforce it any way, is what got it repealed....not only did they have moonshiners on land, there was also rum runners (booze from the caribbean by boat that waited offshore for others to come pick up....Joe Kennedy, someone among many others, had been known for getting his initial bank roll from).
Actually, I think moonshine is still around. It was around long before prohibition, and the moonshiners were always on the lookout for the "revenuers" (tax collectors). Certainly, the end of prohibition did not put an end to all problems with alcohol. I think it is naive to think that legalizing prostitution would do the same for that practice. That said, perhaps it should be decriminalized, at least.
I was aware of some of the history of prohibition, certainly knew about Joe Kennedy.
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