Sherry
F. Colb, JD, Professor of Law and Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar at
Rutgers Law School, wrote in a Dec. 17, 2006 e-mail to ProCon.org that:
"Prostitution
should not be a crime. Prostitutes are not committing an inherently
harmful act. While the spread of disease and other detriments are
possible in the practice of prostitution, criminalization is a sure way
of exacerbating rather than addressing such effects. We saw this quite
clearly in the time of alcohol prohibition in this country.
...What
makes prostitution a 'victimless crime' in the sense that no one is
necessarily harmed by it is that there are consenting adults involved."
Dec. 17, 2006 - Sherry F. Colb, JD 
Harry Browne, 1996 and 2000 Libertarian Party Candidate for President, wrote in the 2000 The Great Libertarian Offer that:
"It's
not difficult for a free society to keep violent crime to a minimum —
with little intrusion on individual liberty and at relatively low cost.
But governments also prosecute 'victimless' crimes. These are acts that
(1) are illegal, (2) involve no intrusion on anyone's person or
property, and (3) about which no injured party files a complaint with
the police. These acts include such things as prostitution, gambling,
and drug use. They are activities in which all parties participate
voluntarily....
Either
individuals are responsible for their own acts — including their
choices of relationships — or the government is responsible for
everything you do. There is no middle ground. Giving government the
power to outlaw consensual activity allows the politicians to impose any
laws they want on you. And they will use that power."
2000 - Harry Browne
San Francisco Bay Guardian in the Jan. 28, 2004 editorial "Decriminalize Sex Work" stated:
"San
Francisco alone spends tens of millions of dollars a year cracking down
on victimless crimes like gambling, drug use, and prostitution. The
cops arrest sex workers; the Sheriff's Office has to process them and
pay an average of $94 a day to keep them in jail. The District
Attorney's Office has to pour resources into prosecuting the cases, and
since many of the people arrested don't have the money for private
lawyers, the Public Defender's Office has to defend them.
...Law
enforcement efforts haven't made a dent in the city's sex work industry
and never will. But careful decriminalization, combined with strict
regulation, could and would end much of the exploitation that takes
place in the underground economy."
Jan. 28, 2004 - San Francisco Bay Guardian
Sue Bradford, Member of New Zealand's Parliament, in a Dec. 12, 2005 speech to Parliament, said:
"We
believed, and still do, that it was completely wrong to go on living
with an archaic law which criminalised generations of sex workers,
mainly women, for a victimless so called crime in the name of antique
moralities shared by only some of the population."
Dec. 12, 2005 - Sue Bradford
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in the 1992 Female Juvenile Prostitution: Problem and Response stated:
"MYTH 2 - Prostitution is a victimless crime.
Prostitution
creates a setting whereby crimes against men, women, and children
become a commercial enterprise.... It is an assault when he/she forces a
prostitute to engage in sadomasochistic sex scenes. When a pimp compels
a prostitute to submit to sexual demands as a condition of employment,
it is exploitation, sexual harassment, or rape -- acts that are based on
the prostitute’s compliance rather than her consent. T
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