Legalization of prostitution in all 50 states of America

I don't quite agree that if prostitution became legal, young girls would suddenly see this as anything more than degrading. Stripping is legal in nearly every state, and MOST girls who get into it simply because they HAVE to, not because they want too. Likewise, porn is just as legal, and we also don't see many girls WANTING to do this. I'd be very surprised if prostitution was actually any different. If you want to get women to get actual jobs, thats a quest involving improved schools and family lives that actually pressure women to being more than just a pretty body with a vagina. We are created to have sex... ish.... We aren't mindless mammals. We are capable of withholding our primal urges and controlling ourselves. This is why we say actions such as murder, rape, assault and theft are punishable crimes. As higher intelligent creatures, we EXPECT each other to actually control ourselves within reason of law of any given society. The problem with your assessment that a sexual relationship is the most personal relationship we can have with another individual is a bit.. wrong... That's implying that a blood bond amongst soldiers in a battlefield, a place where people literally die for others, is not nearly as personal as having sex, something which, frankly, is nothing more than a primal urge at it's most base value. It also means that people who are A-sexual or unable to have sex for any reason are somehow incapable of having one of the most deepest relationships with someone through emotions, because they simply cannot have sex. This also only focuses SPECIFICALLY on the woman, and not saying that men should be equally accountable for having meaningless sex. We have so many teen pregnancies because A) poverty is on the rise B) Sex education is on the fall We are actually pretty freaking strict about sex. Just because you can find it easily on the internet doesn't mean we are completely liberal about it. Most European countries consider us to be prudes, so I find it hard to say that we have "such a lax view on sex". I don't know what media YOU are looking at that glorifies sex, because frankly on TV and in movies, the closes thing I see is a woman looking seductive. People marry because they THINK they love each other. They are already having sex, getting married for sex makes very little sense. People are getting divorced more now than before simply because: A) Divorce is far easier than it was before B) Divorce is far more accepted than it was before C) People have an expectation that marriage will be easy D) People are getting married between the ages of 18-25, ages when they not only don't know their partners but don't even know themselves. So you have a situation where people are getting married when they shouldn't, they think marriage will be easy, and when it invariably turns out it's not, they easily get divorced and feel no problems about it because frankly ANYONE can get divorced. Sex has little to do with it, and allowing people to have sex out of wedlock allows people to peruse relationships sexually without forcing them to marry someone, which could EASILY result in far more divorces. You say prostitution should not be the answer to ones economic issue. For many it literally is. Women don't jump into it, or porn, or stripping, simply because they want too. They do it because they have no other options typically. Not everyone in this country has access to good schooling at affordable costs