A woman died recently in an Arizona prison after having been left in an outdoors cage for hours in triple-digit temperatures, incarcerated for prostitution. In Washington, bikini baristas were recently indicted for flashing body parts to delighted customers. The law should let prostitutes to do as they please with their own bodies. Are prostitutes any worse than women who sleep with many guys for free? Or than women who do it for food, housing, jewelry and/or protection? What's wrong with any of those things to begin with? What moral precept makes it OK to sleep with someone for sexual gratification but not to feed your kids? 

The law should punish those who infringe on others' rights, not try to tell us how to live our own lives. Legislators can hardly claim to know what's good for each of hundreds of millions of individuals better than the individuals themselves.