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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5 why porn is legal, but prostitution is not.
gpt
You'll hear lots of complicated reasons, but the real one is this: laws on prostitution date back hundreds of years to puritanical times when society was a lot more religious, and even having sex out of wedlock was a sin.

Those laws are very hard to reverse, because even if most people don't think they're necessary, nobody wants to be the guy to come out in favor of ending it. Political suicide.

But the puritans didn't have video cameras. By the time those came along times had changed. So though that behavior is frowned upon as well, this time around lawmakers reacted differently, and just looked the other way.