>Well it may not eliminate the spread totally, but if prostitution would stop, that would eliminate one way AIDS is spread.
That is a big "IF". This kind of attitude will most likely NOT stop prostitution, therefore, it is completely counterproductive - apart from being cruel, etc.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)