Since it is so often linked to other criminal activity, especially guns and harder drugs, I hate to see it completely legalalized.

2. A Law with a Body Count
FOSTA directly endangers individuals who perform commercial sexual
services by driving these transactions away from the relative protection of
the internet and back onto the street.266 Traditionally, solicitation of a sex
worker’s services took place during an in-person encounter that also
functioned as an advertisement for business: a brothel267 or, more recently,
the street.268 Street work is more dangerous than indoor work and can even
be lethal.269 Rape and assault are prevalent and seen as inevitable, and
workers are at risk of violence from clients and law enforcement alike.270 As
the internet became a ubiquitous utility, sex workers were able to move the
negotiation and solicitation stages of their business to online forums that did
not demand physical presence.271 Sex workers gained the means to create an
electronic record of client communications,272 screen potential clients,273 and
communicate with one another about dangerous clients, safe spaces, and
other industry-specific health and safety tips.274 The shift online
revolutionized the industry, imbuing sex work with a previously nonexistent
level of safety and decreasing the need for third parties as security or
advertisement intermediaries.275 The effect was striking: a 2017 study found
that “from 2002 to 2010, when Craigslist’s erotic-services site was active and
solicitation moved indoors, the female homicide rate fell by seventeen
percent.”276

FOSTA confines commercial sex to its most dangerous model.277 Since
FOSTA’s enactment, sex workers have reported an increase in
communication from “pimps” claiming that their services are necessary.278
Although some sex workers work with third parties voluntarily,279 others
may feel pressured into a situation that could easily become sex trafficking,
meaning that FOSTA could actually facilitate sex trafficking by forcing
consensual sex workers into coercive situations.280 Further, the workers
most endangered by street-based sex work tend to be from marginalized
communities.281 Women of color are disproportionately arrested and
prosecuted for prostitution-related offenses,282 and forcing sex work into the
street will only increase these arrests.283 In addition to scrubbing
advertisements for consensual sex from online forums, FOSTA threatens
access to secondary online resources used for protection and verification.284
None of these consequences has a valid relationship to FOSTA’s purported aim.

Now all those hookin websites have been shutdown and those women have been forced back on to the street corner. Prostitution is gonna happen regardless of the law. So the question is, where do you want your hos? On the corner? Or in the privacy of their own place?

In places where pot has been legalized there have been an increase in the number of accidents of people under the influence.