It's only controversial in the US. Sex work is a legitimate job. We are selling our brain time on a daily basis to employer. Someone else is selling labor and cleaning the sewers. It's exactly the same thing unless you have a religious agenda.
This is just plainly false unless you consider all the red regions in the map to be "US"
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...
You are naive if you think all prostitutes are willing participants that chose this as a career. Across the world forced prostitution/sex work is fuelled by human trafficking of women and minors.
In an ideal world human beings should be free to make their own choices based on their context and society free to judge them based on it's context. One can't have it both ways. One cannot have absolute individual freedom within a social substrate and be an accepted member of said society without adhering to the norms of the social contract, what ever that might be.
How about: "In some countries, sex work seems to be illegal and problematic. But in other countries, it's regulated and successful.".
>"In some countries, sex work seems to be illegal and problematic. But in other countries, it's regulated and successful."
My take is similar to yours, I'm just communicating to the original commentor that the societies where sex work is legitimate, regulated and safe is a minority compared to the societies where it isn't.
Thinking about it, that's a good point. "Unforced" (eg voluntary or better term) prostitution seems like it wouldn't have anything to do with "human trafficking", as they'd be kind of anathema to each other.
Now, it is “some countries”?
Morally, it's up to you but the human trafficking numbers are larely exaggerated and most participants are willing.