Well, no, 'your property' is pretty much the opposite of 'public'.

Research studies.

They really wouldn't. Random hookups at a bar rarely involve a person who has sex with more than a dozen or so partners per year. The really good prostitutes could push a thousand.

No threat of bodily harm is the main problem. That threat is present in virtually all prostitution, even the kind where the threat is kept secret from the johns.

Well, the most obvious answer would seem to be spread of disease.

I wondered why that wasn't a more popular choice than burial or cremation. TMYK, thanks!

Maybe you should try publicly assaulting someone in the US where violence is OK, and compare how those things turn out.

If you don't know, I really recommend having sex. Or maybe sex with a more skilled partner.

Prostitution is controlled on a state by state basis in the US, it is NOT universally illegal. The separation of powers between states and federal government is a big deal here that burns a lot of court $$$ in figuring out who gets to decide what.

The argument in favor is that the purely consensual kind is so rare that the harm done in suppressing it is warranted by the benefit gained in the other 99.9% of cases. Similarly, a justified homicide is occasionally swept up by the murder laws, and while unfortunate, we really want to retain the benefit of having those laws on the books.

I'd say that's destroying it. The data alone are nothing, the algorithms are integral, even perhaps more important than the data. Would you claim my younger self still exists just because a few of his thought processes are still around? Even myself from yesterday is gone forever.

Sure, I programmed in that exact phrase in response to a mirror image, as it happens.

Also, here's a fun thought: You think that you know what you know about what you know. But what if you're wrong? (This is why pinning down when AI is real is very challenging).

It's simulations all the way up and turtles all the way down, with elephants on both ends.

A significant fraction of gays are now reproducing via surrogate. It's hardly the dead end it used to be. It would be easy to create a growing population consisting of only gays and lesbians. And that's just today. In a decade, two at worst, two gay men will be able to create a child that is a combination of their genes.

We upgrade almost everything on people other than the brain. Also, changing or replacing the logic on the AI would seem to be destroying it by definition.