With the exception of a couple counties in the Nevada, prostitution is illegal in the United States. On the other hand, for-profit pornography, that is pornography so created in order to sell or to be viewed by the general public, is for some unfathomable reason or reasons, considered to legally be an artistic expression so protected under the First Amendment. That sort of reasoning is appallingly poor, since pornography, almost without exception is simply the recording of sex acts, of which some of these sex acts are extreme, unusual, unnecessarily graphic, even dangerous, degrading and the like; all so created, in order to bring some sort of pleasure or gratification to those that are viewers of such for a price.
The reality of the pornography business is that those that are the producers and creators of it, are functionally serving the same purpose as what a pimp represents, of which, the objective of the game, for those that are pornography makers is to run that business to make what money that they can make, at the expense of the objectification and continual exploitation of the females that are hired to perform for them, without these females often knowing the full ramifications of what it is that they have signed up for -- along with the performers suffering from a typical lack of knowledge or understanding of who ultimately legally owns the rights to the porn so created, and what those rights allows the producer to do with that porn, seemingly for as long as period of time as there remains a demand for it.
At least, with prostitution, the prostitute, has a reasonably strong control of what is or is not permitted to happen with their paying customer, along with the salient fact, that what occurs behind closed doors, almost always remains behind those doors, which thereby protects the privacy of all those so involved. The fact that prostitutes are considered to be committing a crime, subject to all the penalties and inconveniences thereof; whereas those that are being paid to perform pornographic sex acts, aren’t subject to being arrested, is pure hypocrisy.
So then, in consideration that the courts have made their ruling, and have essentially green-lighted pornography, forever; this would indicate that in fairness the laws in regards to solicitation and prostitution, should be immediately decriminalized and thereby fairly regulated for the protection of those so involved in these transactions. At least, by doing this, there would be some semblance of consistency between the two; and the argument to reform our current laws in regards to prostitution, would really come down to the admission that what consenting adults do in private is their private business and therefore the state should have no interest in weighing in upon those transactions.
Those that are against prostitution being legalized or decriminalized should also be against pornography being legal, of which both would seem to be subject to the same sort of basic reasoning; and those that believe that pornography is somehow some sort of artistic expression protected by the First Amendment, should be able to be creative enough to find a workaround for prostitution that thereby legalizes it or decriminalizes it on a national level. The fact that this is not the case, in the present day, is demonstrative proof that those that legalized pornography and have kept prostitution illegal, do not recognize the inherent inconsistency of their dubious reasoning, which would be overcome by admitting into law that private transactions between consenting adults in which each party has exhibited the good capacity to enter into that agreement, and have agreed to the terms thereof, should as a matter of course, be legal.