I was actually expecting you to disagree that legalization would help women. Not sure why, I just imagined you making some sort of argument that it would make things worse for them. o3o

Though I bet in some countries it would be worse, but those are ones where women are regularly and systematically exploited anyway. They have a slew of other problems to deal with first. In industrialized countries though, I don't see as many barriers for ensuring that women are protected properly when working in the sex industry.