好问题，还真问对了。我还真宁愿意我的老婆和女儿到那种一天工作十几个小时的车间里打工，而不是去出卖身体。不过我是女的。：）） - American laws prohibiting prostitution are fairly recent phenomena. Before the turn of the century, not only was prostitution legal, but there were also laws regulating it. Laws prohibiting prostitution are a product of the Progressive Era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Prostitution in the United States is illegal, except in some rural counties of the state of Nevada. Prostitution, however, is present in most parts of the country, in various forms.
1911 - Netherlands Bans Brothels Apr. 13, 1946 - France Bans Brothels May 24, 1956 - Japan Passes Anti-Prostitution Law 1959 - Britain Legalizes Prostitution Oct. 1, 2000 - Netherlands Legalizes Brothels June 25, 2003 - New Zealand Decriminalizes Nov. 2, 2004 - US Communities Vote For and Against Legal Prostitution
On Nov. 2, 2004, the city of Berkeley, California voted 63.51% against decriminalizing prostitution. The same day Churchill County, Nevada voted 62.78% to keep brothels legal even though no brothels existed in the county at the time. Nov. 4, 2008 - San Francisco, CA Votes Against Decriminalizing Prostitution Jan. 1, 2009 - Norway Bans the Purchase of Sex Sep. 28, 2010 - Canadian Court Declares Ban on Brothels and Soliciting Prostitution Unconstitutional
