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CMV: I believe that professional porn stars and prostitutes (both sexes) are the same, and since one is legal, they both should be.

It doesn't make any sense to me how prostitution is illegal in the US (except for that one area in what, Nevada?) but professional porn companies that pay people to have sex on the camera are completely legal and legitimate businesses. I feel as if these companies are simply exploiting sex workers and that prostitutes could greatly benefit from being able to legally exchange sex for money. They make the rules, they decide who they work with and how often they do it, where they want to live and work, and all their income goes to them. There's no middle man and no pressure to do something they're not comfortable with. Why do they have to work for someone else? Why can't they run their own business?
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In the result, it may seem they are similar.  However, this is how it is different:

Porn is still considered a function of film, and thus creative artistic license.  What does that mean?  That means it's an issue of freedom of speech.  Yes, quite a bit of porn out there isn't really much of a film in terms of how we would normally judge a film.  But there are plenty of films that tread this line, so where does it end?  In banning pornography, can there never be a sex scene in a movie again?  That's why it's legal- because to outlaw it is to create a slippery slope that inherently violates some freedom of speech issues.

Prostitution is a direct business transaction, and therefore does not fall privy under freedom of speech.  As a business interaction it can be open to regulation, or being outlawed.  That's the fundamental difference between them.  Although it seems silly because the end product seems basically the same, how both mediums actually interact with society as a whole are vastly different.