I would argue that many women are coerced into prostitution and legalization will not change this fact - and not even improve the situation (it could make it worse).
That's a possibility, but not one that's equally likely under all regulatory regimes. I think you'd have to consult the statistical record to make a convincing argument one way or another.
I think it all comes down to:
1)Whether or not there's a moral case for prohibiting things that mentally competent adults do to themselves in private, or that they choose to do to one another in private.
2)Whether or not you think it's likely that the coercive apparatus devised to limit one particular variety of behavior that fits the description above will remain confined to the said activities. Personally, someone using heroin concerns me far less than the state's enforcement apparatus seizing their assets because they choose to consume a substance that others don't think is very good for them.
You have SO got to be an attorney, aren't you?!
No, but like many, I often dreamed of a career as such as a child. When I wasn't dreaming of being "Credit Analyst" or
other acts of childish whimsy...
speaking of which, who ever dreams of becoming a proctologist?