This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Saturday, July 28, 2018.

I'm Caleb Brown.

As the federal government continues its crackdown on the free flow of information between sex workers and their clients,

it's worth taking stock of just how much better legal sex work is for workers, for customers, and the broader public.

Al as little as a legal sex worker and sex educator in Nevada,

we talked about the effort to shut down legal sex work there

and the broader debate earlier this month.

How long has prostitution been legal in Nevada?

Prostitution has been legal in Nevada since 1972. It is an interesting series of laws that declare prostitution legal, but it's by a county basis rather than a statewide overview.

And so it's hard to really put your finger on the exact moment in which

prostitution truly became legal in Nevada because that exact

moment kind of depends on the exact county that you're talking about.

Oh, okay, so it's the state essentially has local option on prostitution then?

Correct. Back during the 70s a series of guidelines were drafted to kind of give counties a way to determine if their location was suitable for legal prostitution and illegal brothel.

One of those things at the time involved the population, which again

changed depending how the town grew over time and a lot of these laws, of course, are incredibly dated and written during a time in which

the thoughts and opinions regarding legal sex work were a little bit more limited and conservative.

All right, so there is an effort.

I don't know how effective it is.

Maybe you can tell me about that to go ahead and just get rid of it in Nevada.

And, you know, for all of the connotation

that goes along with prostitution,

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