A thriving, legitimate business.

Why do we in American pretend that prostitution is illegal?  Open any free rag in any city and you'll see lots of ads for hookers.  (Or am I supposed to believe these busty, meretricious maidens are really massage therapists?) Since they seems to advertise week after week, and I never hear of any arrests, I have to assume what they offer is legal. It's a pity really that they don't make it legal-legal. There will always be prostitution, so why not make it clean and safe. How? By making sure it's done willingly, pimpless, hygienically, with regular medical checkups, and paying taxes like everyone else. But the priggish Christians, of which they are zillions would never countenance legal prostitution. They would rather that their hypocritical husbands visit some shady, possibly infected, lady of the night who may be on the up and up, or may be the psychological victim of some pimp who likes to beat up and rob the customer when he's finished with his transaction. It's all ugly and dirty, but let's not pretend it's illegal.