it's exploitative and ultimately harmful... I wonder how it became "progressive"  Because a vast majority of the far-left types you hear are just regurgitating talking points (that were likely regurgitated from...) someone else, without any personal experience with the issue... ... Realistically, though, I think decriminalizing prosititution wouldn't actually be terrible. It's obviously not going away, current enforcement doesn't seem to be doing much to stem the problem and the illicit nature of the "industry" leads to a lot of the issues it has.