Why is porn legal in the US?

The main thing is there is a major psychological difference between being paid to have sex with someone else who is being paid to have sex and being paid to have sex with someone who is paying for sex.

Like most laws, they are tradition based, as well.

From a utilitarian standpoint (hate to quote Wikipedia, but):

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Pornography generates billions of dollars in sales in the United States alone, and economists have suggested that it has now gotten to the point where the outlawing of the industry, which has been tried on many occasions, could have a major negative economic impact upon the country, and a prohibition-style legislated ban might spark a rise in organized crime much similar to that of the prohibition ban on alcohol did.

The same can't be said about prostitution.

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Well, no.

I could be wrong, but I doubt there are any unregulated porn laws in the US. I think most require licensing. And prostitution isn't illegal in the US, but it's illegal through local jurisdictions. It's legal (and regulated) in Nevada, after all.

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I think if that were the tradition, then prostitution would probably be legal or less stigmatized, at any rate. Prostitution is more of a problem not because it is viewed as a woman performing a service, but because it is viewed as a woman as a good itself. I think if sex was looked at as the good, it'd be less of an issue.

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Uh, the question isn't "What is the law?" but "Why is the law as such?".

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