>>If prostitution is bad (which I agree with, though probably for different reasons than the most),...
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>I am curious about those reasons. Not because it is sinful, I am sure.

That's my inner feminist speaking. Violence is bad, sex is not. Violence is use of force against a fellow human, and in case of prostitution it's the force of money. For self-employed prostitutes it may not be so bad, but most of them are more or less enslaved, abused and exploited by their pimps and unprotected from abusive customers.

>> ...wouldn't the simplest way to make it vanish be to cut the demand? With no market, this industry wouldn't exist. Is there any religion around here which tries to use this approach?
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>I am not sure about prostitution, but you probably know that many religions frown upon sexual intercourse, between people that are not married among themselves.

Wilchelm Reich has explained the mechanism quite well, and why do they do that.

I've never been to a sermon, so someone correct me if I'm wrong: when condemning prostitution, do the preachers extend equal anathema on both parties in the transaction, or do they somehow expose the sex workers as immoral while skipping the subject of their customers? That may explain, in part, some of these serial killers.