I think it should be legal
legally separated couples may sleep around but married couples in open relation ships run the risk of legal social intervention.
If you pick someone up in a bar or pay for dinner and or a movie, its legal, but just walking up and handing over money isn't ?
Authority figures get off on power trips and telling someone who they can fuck, because a pecking order and issuing mating privileges is the ultimate power trip.
Its about the love for bullshit.
sadly legalized prostitution would get all screwed up.
I can already hear discussions on C-span about having prostitution officers monitoring activities to make certain clients only fuck in the missionary position and the abomination of homosexual sex is not taking place.
or worse MTV would make some politically correct TV show where people would be judged for not fucking grimey looking skeletons.
corporate America would get involved so there wouldn't be any variety, we would have to accept their concepts of what is fuckable.
Martha Stewart would start turning tricks,
Kmart Hookers.
tax breaks for mom and pop brothels.
Soccer Mom approved brothels.
it would get fucked up some how.