>Again whether it is ok, is not my judgement call, it is reality that you cannot ban prostitution very much like you cannot win the war against drugs. If there is a demand, there will be supply, legal or not. The Dutch have decided to accept it and therefore have more control over the criminal activities associated with it.
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>Just like drugs, I have never felt the desire to visit a prostitute, and I would not like any of my family getting involved with those, but they are a reality in our and also your society. How you deal with it is the question though.

You just made me think of what choices I have made so far, and how did I fare with them.

Success: 1) practically no contact with advertising. Avoided one chance to write code for a telemarketing company, and on the other side, whenever they call I tell them which laws they are breaking and how few rungs above prostitution they are. 2) no contact with lawyers for a number of decades; the one guy we had to deal with was not really a lawyer, made a lot of money on us (not directly out of our pockets but, ahem, we could have got that instead) and in the end did screw us, even if without intent. 3) contacts with banks successfully severed (no debt last seven years), presently kept at minimum. 4) drugs, never felt the need, not even the weed, and also avoiding the legal ones as well - my consumption is six ibuprofens a year, or less, last aspirin was ten years ago, last antibiotic in 2008. 4) prostitution, never - like I said to Mike, if you can't get it for free, with a fellow equal partner, you don't deserve it. 6) Insurance, only the mandatory one for the car. Don't remember ever getting a dime back from them, there's always some extra condition for it that you didn't dream of. 7) gambling, never. If I play cards, it's mostly games of skill, not as much of chance, where the fun is in the game itself. Whenever I tried to play for some stakes, I played far worse than usual. 8) games of chance, no, thanks, I passed the probability and statistics with a solid C, good enough to know that the house always wins.

Failure, more or less: I had only one job in a business of dubious nature, which was at least fun and my involvement was of no consequence to the morality of what they were doing. In my other employments, we wronged the customers a few times (by not delivering on time, or delivering something else instead, once not delivering at all) and while the decisions weren't mine, I still feel bad about those, after twenty-some years.

All in all, not too bad. Now if I could only find a way to circumvent the bureaucracies of the world, I'd be happy.