I'm not sure we really need to keep a ban on anything in this regard. Unfortunately, there is this hundred-year-long stigma about sex work. There are a lot of myths and rhetoric that have been perpetuated, not unlike by some of the witnesses who have given false information here.
The clients are not the boogeymen that they are made out to be. Honestly, by criminalizing them, you are not motivating them to report exploitation should they witness it. These guys are on the front line—