Holly of The Pervocracy, an EMT, says what needs to be said to put sex work in context it needs to be put in. (Emphasis mine.)

Personally, I think legalization is the only way prostitution can be made safe. Prostitution isn’t inherently dangerous because it’s sexual; it’s dangerous because it’s marginal. Predators don’t attack people in sex shops or strip bars or or swingers’ clubs, they don’t go where sex is, they go where women with no legal protection or organizational safety measures are.

She said it here.

There’s a whole lot more to say, much of which she says very well. But that’s the bottom line: predators don’t go where sex is, they go where women with no legal protection or organizational safety measures are.