Prostitution Should Be Legalized On city streets across the United States, hundreds of prostitutes begin their work when the sun sets. Not only do these women face a night of providing sexual services to patrons, they also face the fear of abuse from clients and police and attacks by men who target prostitutes. These and other acts of violence against sex workers go unreported because law enforcement either dismisses the prostitutes’ claims because of the women’s line of work or arrests them by using the claims as forms of confessions. For the same reasons, most sex workers choose to avoid outreach programs for sexually transmitted disease prevention. Furthermore, many local