Just let prostitution be?

My wild thoughts take me to decriminalising of prostitution in South Africa, and I shudder to think of the consequences.

Methinks that such an act is really unchristian-like and in a way, is uncultured, so to speak because prostitutes were castrated during days gone by and if it has to be decriminalised, then whatever we’ve been taught in our upbringing is just flushed down the toilet.

There’s talk of it being decriminalised to an extent that they are taxed, but one immediately asks how would they do it because most of the prostitutes we know and see stand idle on street corners under dim street lights.
They’d also gather around a lit fire on cold nights.

Most of the time they’d lure their clients to the nearest deserted place or dark alleys and you ask yourself, how would the government gather its taxes in such circumstances? Would those prostitutes be in a position to declare to the taxman how many clients they had in one night, a week, a month?

Do you think they’d part with so much money when they dearly need it?
If say, it is regulated and there are certain fees that have to paid by clients from the normal ones, would it be a promotion for the street prostitutes who are said to be charging anything from R50 upwards depending on negotiations and desperation?

Would they agree to be under the control of some pimp who’d market them in some posh place? Would their clientele ever go to those regulated places because, for your information, it is decent people and rich and middle income and also low income people that go for prostitutes.
I doubt if there’s anybody among those that would want to blow their cover.
My earnest plea is; leave prostitutes to their trade and ensure law enforcers do their job and control or get rid of it as they are supposed to.

They should leave the tendency of also enjoying the forbidden fruit, because it has led them to sin even more.
Either it is abolished or left as it is, do not legalise or regularise it.
Meanwhile, Andrew Donaldson wrote the following concerning the decriminalising of prostitution:

According to the CGE commissioner Janine Hicks, this is the preferred term, in terms of trade description for this type of labour, chosen by the scrubbers themselves, rather than “prostitution” which, because of its unfortunate pejorative associations, didn’t come to the party with much in the way of boosting self-esteem.
The commission believes the rights and dignity of sex workers should be protected, and the repeal of laws that prohibit their activities was the only way to achieve this; criminalisation, it argued, violated those sections of the Constitution regarding the right to human dignity, the right to security of the person, and the right of trade, occupation and profession.

Sex work, they argue, must be regarded as “ordinary work” – which, I’d imagine, was not the sort of phrase bandied about by any self-respecting escort agency when describing what’s on offer for the modern businessman or out-of-town executive – and the industry should be governed by existing labour and business laws that are intended to prevent exploitative, unsafe and unfair business practices.

The CGE compared various international approaches to sex work and found that, even when they didn’t ban it on religious, moral or feminist grounds, most countries got it hopelessly wrong. In the United Kingdom, for example, it was permissible to buy sex from someone, but any other related activity – brothel-keeping, procurement, soliciting, and so on – was outlawed. Which effectively criminalised everything. No fun there then.

However, they apparently got it right in New Zealand, of all places. The CGE claimed that studies there proved that decriminalisation allowed sex workers to protect themselves, improved their relationship with the police and had no impact on demand for their services.

Here, though, we will pause dramatically for the usual tired round of sheep jokes. Finished? Good. Onward then.