Thanks to all of you for your sensitive and thoughtful responses. I'm going to leave this thread going a while before I weigh in with some research.

With regard to your comment RaindropVampire, I was going to add that they don't call it "the world's oldest profession" for nothing. You are right, prostitution is not new and it's not fading away. I believe as long as there are humans, there will be some form of prostitution. And yet, as a society, I feel we are only beginning to really step back from judgment and moralizing in order to analyze what is really the ethical or logical way to respond to prostitution. I will add that I recently changed my view on the legal implications based on some newer research I read from a country where I have never lived. I have found the issue to be even more complex than I previously realized. More to follow if folks are interested.

Keep posting if you feel like it. Thank you.