I'm far from an expert in the issue, but I think that most people that support the legalization of prostitution don't support the legalization of human trafficking.

That's a really bad example because prostitution by itself is victimless crime. In fact, it's perfectly legal when money doesn't change hands! With gambling you have a winner and a loser, so all the other issues end up downstream necessarily whereas human trafficking (and other issues with sex work) is an enabling tool for criminals running prostitution operations.

Okay!

> worst aspect is the large amount of marketing and advertising these platforms receive

Virtually no one is advertising prostitution or human trafficking — certainly not to the degree that gambling is being advertised.

By extension, it seems we can agree prostitution and human trafficking are not nearly as severe a problem as gambling.

i think in both cases regulation is the key. for gambling there could be max $ per bet/month/year and for SW more testing and background checks to blacklist bad actors