"… on average, when Craigslist’s opened erotic services in a city, the female homicide rate went down 17 percent.
17 percent. That’s not the homicide rate for female sex workers. That’s the homicide rate for all women."
"Another study found when Rhode Island accidentally decriminalised indoor prostitution from 2003–2009, they found a 31% decline in reported rapes and a similar decline in gonorrhea cases."
https://medium.com/assembly-four/my-six-week-rollercoaster-ride-172eb58ba80e