And it will still take another couple generations, minimum, before prostitution is legal outside some Nevada counties. (Prostitution is only legal in Nevada counties that are below a certain population density... so ironically enough, in Las Vegas, Sin City itself, prostitution is illegal. Doesn't stop 'em though.)
I should clarify: actually selling sex itself wasn't a crime up here when the case started. The prohibitions challenged here were against a) running a bawdy house, b) living off the avails of prostitution (which I think was deemed to be the case if you lived with a prostitute), and c) communicating for the purpose of prostitution in public. These basically meant that a sex worker cannot legally set up any sort of base of operations or take time to screen for the crazies, self-entitled misogynists or serial killers you would see in this line of work. That was the basis on which the prohibitions were struck down as unconstitutional (except c), struck down at trial and now restored by the Court of Appeal).
Now if the Tories didn't have their heads up their asses they'd allow the judgment to sit and make a new and better (less arbitrary, more customized to current realities) law outright banning prostitution - they have a majority government, they can do it however politically incorrect it is. But most of their supporters just want the status quo because they think this is the work of bleeding-heart liberals and judicial activists or some other conservative buzzverbiage.
Honestly, I've never had a problem with prostitution being legal. As George Carlin put it, "Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal?"
And if it was a legal profession, it could be monitored, properly regulated (mandatory health exams every so often), taxed, and so forth. But that's obviously nothing but crazy talk.
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Then it will apply to the whole country.
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Now if the Tories didn't have their heads up their asses they'd allow the judgment to sit and make a new and better (less arbitrary, more customized to current realities) law outright banning prostitution - they have a majority government, they can do it however politically incorrect it is. But most of their supporters just want the status quo because they think this is the work of bleeding-heart liberals and judicial activists or some other conservative buzzverbiage.
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And if it was a legal profession, it could be monitored, properly regulated (mandatory health exams every so often), taxed, and so forth. But that's obviously nothing but crazy talk.