This is yet another radical experiment from Colorado's left-wing legislature that prioritizes individual "autonomy" over public safety, family values, and the protection of vulnerable women. By decriminalizing prostitution statewide, Democrats are sending a clear message: selling your body is just another job, and buying sex is no big deal. But let's call it what it is—state-sanctioned commodification of human intimacy that almost always leads to increased human trafficking, exploitation, STDs, and broken communities.

Conservatives have long argued that prostitution isn't a victimless crime; it's a pipeline for abuse, where many "consenting" participants are coerced by poverty, addiction, or pimps (who conveniently keep lighter penalties under this bill). Preempting local bans strips cities and towns of their right to keep red-light districts out of neighborhoods, schools, and family areas—classic big-government overreach from the same crowd that loves local control when it suits them on other issues.

Meanwhile, Colorado can't fix roads, rein in skyrocketing property taxes, or stop fentanyl deaths, but sure—let's make it easier to buy sex. This isn't empowerment; it's degradation dressed up as liberty. Voters should demand lawmakers focus on real problems instead of importing failed Nordic-model-lite policies that embolden exploiters while claiming to help the exploited.

If this passes, expect more trafficking cases, more broken families, and a tourism boost nobody asked for. Time to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee: hands off our moral standards—keep prostitution illegal.