I was thinking about worker co-operatives too, in regards to the Icelandic law that prohibited third parties from profiting. It's extremely common for worker co-operatives to be legally constituted as corporations, who are entities or persons under the law - unless there was some exception for worker co-ops, that would prevent prostitutes from organizing into co-ops. Co-ops would seemingly be an ideal way for prostitutes, operating independantly of the pimps, to organize - they could pool resources to provide themselves with a workspace, which would give them better control of security etc ... they'd control the space they have to work in, instead of having to work in an uncontrolled environment.

I like the idea of enfranchising them, but ... with an eye to eventually phasing out prostitution. I think they're actually complementary concepts, rather than being at odds. Enfranchisement might provide some of them with enough control that they can look towards getting out. I'm actually sort of undecided about phasing it out, but I think most of it should be. If 11% or whatever want to continue in that line of work, though, I suppose it should not be utterly phased out. My gut reaction is to recoil from it and want to get rid of it altogether, but honestly, I suspect that at least some of that is the closet moralizer in me speaking. I'm, well, a bit prude and my feelings towards prostitution are confused, hesitant, and uncertain.