Why is Los Angeles criminalizing adults for engaging in consensual sex work?

[Anonymous]

Putting away people because of an old societal virtue about sex before marriage. It’s time for a different approach, if Amsterdam can do it, so can Los Angeles California.

[Breanna_nonbinary]

Why? Because everyone else is doing it. Because it has always been that way. The only places that have decriminalized it are very small locations with lots of oversight and regulations. Considering that LA county has 10+million people and is made of multiple city’s it would be impossible to regulate all of the sex workers in southern california.
In addition the laws surrounding prostitution are in place to help women from being forced into prostitution. Las Vegas has a huge prostitution problem and pimping problem. Considering that population of Las Vegas is 2+ million the problem her would be at least 5 times as bad.

[Anonymous]

Why are you posting about this multiple times a day? Get some new material.

[NamerOfStars]

They're not. It's not "sex work", it's prostitution- and your unwillingness to come out and say what you mean in favor of hiding behind euphemisms does NOT speak well of you. More importantly, though, the laws of California are not set by Los Angeles. It's a CITY, not a state.

[jahaims]

LA has 10 million legal residents. Amsterdam has 800k people. Scaling is an issue with a lot of policies/laws.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Los Angeles is in hypocritical, prudish America which is behind the rest of the First World in JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING !!!

[In_Trance]

Ok. That's enough. Move on

[gatixek710]

Because legal prostitution is associated with an increase in sex trafficking.