Considering the documented harm to women who are trafficked and prostituted, it is only logical that women should not be criminalized for being the victim of those abuses. Decriminalization also means that women will not fear arrest if they seek assistance and may be more likely to testify against pimps and traffickers. But there absolutely should be no decriminalization for pimps, traffickers, brothel owners, or the men who buy women in prostitution. All legal reforms should aim to stop these perpetrators and profiteers. Prostitution should not be legalized.
Legalization means that the state imposes regulations under which women can be prostituted.
In effect, regulation means that under certain conditions it is permissible to exploit and abuse women. Considering the extreme conditions of exploitation in the sex industry, those distinctions are nothing but abstractions that make for good academic debates. They are, however, meaningless to women under the control of pimps or traffickers. The renaming may clean up the image of prostitution, but it doesn't end the violence and exploitation. Prostitution is an extreme form of gender discrimination.