>>102173484From the paper you cited:
" Also, while we have established that the legalized status of prostitution is associated with a higher incidence of trafficking inflows, a cross-sectional analysis can not provide a conclusion as to whether legalizing prostitution would result in increased trafficking after legalization. "
And:
"Naturally, this qualitative evidence is also somewhat tentative as there is no “smoking gun” proving that the scale effect dominates the substitution effect and that the legalization of prostitution definitely increases inward trafficking flows. The problem here lies in the clandestine nature of both the prostitution and trafficking markets, making it difficult, perhaps impossible, to find hard evidence establishing this relationship. Our central finding, i.e., that countries with legalized prostitution experience a larger reported
incidence of trafficking inflows, is therefore best regarded as being based on the most reliable existing data, but needs to be subjected to future scrutiny."
This is not so much evidence as a statement "We think more people are trafficked, but we can't prove legalized prostitution causes it.
As for your bullshit communism comparison. Communism failed because it was trying to get people to behave in the way they were ideologically supposed to rather than how humans actually wanted to behave. It's also why drug prohibition has utterly failed, and why alcohol prohibition fails. People like to get fucked up and lit.
Now, prostitution has existed for longer than humans have. (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_among_animals ) You're not going to eradicate it as long as both sex and money.
So we had better figure out what the harm reduction strategy actually is then and put it into practice, because a straight up ban just is not going to work.