Well there's the problem. Your situation is weak. If the world did it like Nevada much of these issues would go away http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Nevada
Lets assume that you are right and the world implemented your idea. How would that solve the fact that the world-wide demand is between 100 and 200% higher (depending on what studies you choose to believe) than what could possibly be met with "voluntary" prostitution?
What do you mean by pimping? Beating on women and stealing their money? No quarrel there. Or do you mean having a house, advertising for customers, screening the customers, and serving as the administrator, as in a Nevada brothel. That can be called pimping but it surely should be legal if prostitution is legal.
Any activity where a person gets a cut of what the woman makes without it being clear what service he or she does in return is considered pimping. I believe one way in which they circumvent it over here is by posing as a "car service" that picks up and drops off the women with clients.
The problem is how easy it is to circumvent. They just provide some bogus service that can look legit on paper.
If you have a safe legal alternate I see no reason why the police shouldn't go after such people with ferocity. Meanwhile, people who want to get their freak on have an option and women who like to be freaky have a place where they can make a ton of money due to such a skewed supply/demand curve. If the pay is high enough you will get more workers voluntarily
Well that would just be fraud. Isn't the main reason why a pimp would disguise their identity that it's illegal to be a pimp? Give pimps a legal avenue and that goes away too
The thing where I can agree with Belgium guy, is that even in places where prostitution is legal, they are still look down upon by society and in turn by the police force, so the girls are still allowed to be exploited as the Johns, police, media, society ignore any abuses that go down in their work place. Like I said, they need a/better Union.
It isn't just stuff like that. e.g. try to get health insurance as a prostitute in a country where it is legalized...
But are they allowed to be covered under the ACA. I don't see why not, I assume they would file as self employed, I wonder what stripers will do, they do work in a cash business, so it is not like they declare taxes, so how can they get self insurance, file as unemployed? The stripper business is a legal business, but it can still be very shady and have parts of its operation outside the law. I am pretty sure most/many legal whore houses would work in similar shady ways as run down strip joints, more than the HBO TV show.
Disagree with point 2. It's impossible to regulate since agents can always add overage to make up for the fixed rate. That's just how the representative world works