While I think that men who use prostitutes are probably rather pathetic, I cannot see why it is a less honourable form of wage labour than any other and I can't see the 'feminism' in trying to get it prohibited (i.e. driven underground where the women fall prey to real exploitation by the police and gansters).

Legalisation is very important if sex work is to be open (the customers probably don't want this). The women must be able to organise to protect themselves.

In Cambodia it is not illegal, but human trafficking is rife. The problem is not, however, in the legality or illegality, but in the underdevelopment of an economy and society in which gansterism is one of the principal means of capital accumulation. People who oppose prostitution in that context are not opposing the trade as such, but the form under which it occurs - namely, slavery.