San Francisco has a proposal on the ballot to decriminalize prostitution.  Whaddya know, the City by the Bay may actually have something right.  There are long-standing, well-know arguments on both sides.  The bottom line for me is that consenting adults, underpinned by reasonable health and safety regulations, should be able to make this decision for themselves.  I am sensitive to arguments about how this might contribute to a general cultural decline, and how such a decline can ultimately lead to societal disintegration, but I would counter-argue that taking this activity out of the shadows and regulating it sensibly, actually lessens its coarsness, as well as its in-your-face aspects.