I think the problem is that we keep talking about this as work, as if this were inevitable. We're working towards the end of it, just like we're working towards the end of domestic violence, the end of rape and the end of all these things that plague women and society. I want to work towards the end of prostitution, so hear me out.
When they pulled the licences, what should have been implemented is what women need in order to not be in those situations. A lot of the women I work with and others work with are in it because of economic inequalities. Welfare isn't enough. They're not getting enough child support. They're not getting whatever they need. We need to look at what women need to be brought up to a level where they don't need to rely on that for their economic viability.
My sister and brother-in-law own an auto mechanics shop, and three doors over from them is a licensed brothel, a massage parlour. It's disconcerting. We hear what happens through the walls. We see men going in and out all the time. That's just not good for society. Once you put it in an office space, once you put prostitution behind doors, how do we know who is behind those doors? What is happening behind those doors? Who put those doors there in the first place? How do we know they're safe? How do we know they're not trafficked? How do you know they're over age? As soon as we lose the ability to monitor what's happening, it kind of turns into the Wild West and will just keep increasing and spreading when, for equality's sake, we should be working to end it.