All these middle aged women who have no skills due to raising children would be able to support themselves by giving old men handjobs.
Keeping prostitution illegal helps save marriages . also has the added benefit of making it harder for the husband to cheat on payday.
Because Germany and the US have different cultures you would have to show that before prostitution was legal the divorce rate did not change after is was legal and within the same demographics.
for example religious Muslims are probably less likely to participate in prostitution. So if there was a influx of Muslim immigrants in Germany you would have to take that into account.
The divorce rate has in fact increased in Germany since prostitution became legal in 2002. So Germany’s data actually supports my theory and not yours. Even without taking into account demographic differences which would surely make it support my claim even more so.
Where do you see this? Both the divorce rate per capita and the the divorce rate per marriage has gone down dramatically since 2002… It was over 50% then and is around 39% now.
EDIT: but there is some merit to changing demographics. we would need a study that accounts for that.