Hmm, I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about it but my general impression is one of ‘it’s a symptom, not a disease.’ It’d be best if it didn’t exist, but not through prohibition, whether legal or moral. I’d like to see a society where people and the institutions can be trusted enough that people feel safe in just having sex when they want to, without it being transactional. It’s pretty well known at this point that men and women desire sex at approximately the same rate; it’s just that women don’t feel safe enough to say yes as often as they might like to. I suspect that prostitution could almost, but not quite, be thought of as a metric. The more safe and secure people feel, sexually, the less need there would be for prostitution.