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You are right about prostitution existing everywhere. No doubt it exists more safely at the Bunny Ranch or Hop-a-long Heidi's (I made that up) than it exists on the street.

But to make this our reasoning for accepting prostitution is to intimate that sex is only a physical act. I maintain that it is much more than a mere physical transaction. To buy and sell it on the open market dishonors us as human beings made in the image of God.

But to make this our reasoning for accepting prostitution is to intimate that sex is only a physical act.

Correct, except for one thing, not criminalizing something is not the the same thing as accepting it.

To buy and sell it on the open market dishonors us as human beings made in the image of God.

Absolutely correct.

"But to make this our reasoning for accepting prostitution is to intimate that sex is only a physical act. I maintain that it is much more than a mere physical transaction. To buy and sell it on the open market dishonors us as human beings made in the image of God."

Well, for you, perhaps, the sexual act is something more than a physical act. That belief, however, is not held by everyone, I'm afraid. And, sex is obtained by many under false pretenses, often taking in people who might believe as you do.

The bottom line is that we, as mammals, have a drive to reproduce. That drive is biological. All mammals have sex in essentially the same way. Only humans have the capacity to raise it to some other level, using their intellect. Still, the mammalian drive remains, and not everyone is willing to rationalize sex into some sort of holy act.

Thus, we have prostitution. We also have casual sex among adults. One is illegal. The other is commonplace.

>>>To buy and sell it on the open market dishonors us as human beings made in the image of God.>>>

While I agree with you religiously, speaking from an American POV, why should my activity have YOUR religion in mind? It shouldn't.