In the article Enforcing prostitution laws could have saved Marylène Lévesque, Opinion, Feb. 11 Writers Janine Benedict, Isabel Grant and Elizabeth Sheehy are getting it wrong.
Legalizing prostitution frees up sex workers and their johns to go about the oldest profession on the planet without largely ineffectual legal harassment, and frees up law enforcement to enforce valid laws.
Legalization would also negate the need for pimps, giving sex workers control over their careers.