The results of the poll reported by NYO that a majority of NY voters do not favor the legalization of (adult) prostitution demonstrates that people are still under the mistaken impression that governments can legislate morality. Prostitution will continue anyway, whether it is legalised or not. If it remains illegal, however, many prostitutes and their customers will be at risk of disease and exploitation, as well as being made into criminals. Prostitution as a business, like the supply of alcohol during the Prohibition era, will have a corrupting influence on police and elected officials. If this repression would create a utopia, maybe it would all be worthwhile, but of course it has not and will not. In other parts of the world, prostitution has been legalized and is being controlled. In those places, prostitutes work in safe, sanitary conditions for minimum pay levels, like anybody else, and their clients are not criminalized for satisfying their natural urges. If the churchgoers want to try to reform people they consider to be acting immorally, they are always welcome to do so, whether it be for having sex, drinking, smoking, cursing, telling lies or something else. For an example of a modern prostitution control law currently operating in the Australian State of Victoria, follow this link: