{"id":16014,"date":"2026-02-27T09:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=16014"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:17:07","slug":"democrats-move-to-make-colorado-the-first-state-to-legalize-prostitution-what-could-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/democrats-move-to-make-colorado-the-first-state-to-legalize-prostitution-what-could-go-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Move to Make Colorado the First State to Legalize Prostitution. What Could Go Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

That last sentence is a whopper, but true. Colorado is going buck wild with Demonrat legislation, so pay attention to what these debauched people want. And they really want to have sex with children under 18, so by legalizing prostitution it will keep children available. It’s similar to California that legalized child prostitution and aided sex traffickers<\/a>, making it incredibly difficult for police to help these children get away from those exploiting them. They really are Demonrats, so stop voting for them Colorado or you’ll pay for it, literally and figuratively. And it could become a problem we live so close to Colorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2026\/02\/26\/colorados-first-nation-bill-decriminalize-prostitution-would-increase-human-trafficking-critics-claim\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Colorado state Rep. Lorena Garcia at the state Capitol on April 23, 2025. (Aaron Ontiveroz\/The Denver Post\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Tyler O’Neil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colorado Democrats<\/a> have filed a bill that could make it the first state to decriminalize prostitution, and critics warn that the bill would make the Centennial State the \u201cWild West\u201d for purchasing sex and lead to an increase in human trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a billion-dollar budget shortfall here in Colorado, and so there\u2019s a lot of talk about budget and affordability and cost of living,\u201d Jarvis Caldwell, the Republican minority leader in the state House of Representatives, told The Daily Signal<\/a> in an interview Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t the Republicans\u2019 idea of making things more affordable, by making it easier to sell yourself for sex,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While some rural areas have legalized prostitution in Nevada, the entire state has not done so. Similarly, Maine decriminalized the selling of sex, but not the buying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caldwell noted that Colorado had<\/a> the 10th highest rate of human trafficking in the United States (both in the raw number of cases and as a per capita rate) in 2023, according to the Colorado-based Common Sense Institute<\/a>. He also cited a 2012 study from the London School of Economics<\/a>, finding that foreign countries that legalized or decriminalized prostitution had higher rates of human trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caldwell argued that legalization involves setting \u201crules and guidelines\u201d to regulate a practice, while a \u201cfull-on decriminalization,\u201d like this bill offers, \u201cjust makes it really the Wild West.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a no-holds-barred, no one has to worry about it whatsoever, which is obviously going to drive up demand on the buyer side, and \u2026 if you don\u2019t have enough \u2018sex workers\u2019 for the demand side, that\u2019s where you get your human trafficking increase,\u201d Caldwell said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decriminalizing Prostitution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The bill, SB26-097<\/a>, requires the statewide decriminalization of \u201ccommercial sexual activity among consenting adults.\u201d It decriminalizes both the selling and the purchasing of sex statewide and preempts cities and localities from criminalizing the world\u2019s oldest profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill repeals state laws imposing criminal penalties for prostitution, soliciting for prostitution, patronizing a prostitute, and a prostitute displaying herself in public. It preserves two criminal penalties: those for using intimidation or menacing to convince someone to become a prostitute and for pimping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American Civil Liberties Union<\/a> has called for the decriminalization of prostitution, which it calls \u201csex work,\u201d claiming that criminalizing prostitution makes it harder for prostitutes to access health care and other services and \u201cfeeds an out-of-control mass incarceration system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Daily Signal reached out to the bill\u2019s Democrat sponsors in the Senate\u2014Nick Hinrichsen and Lisa Cutter\u2014and the House\u2014Lorena Garcia and Rebekah Stewart\u2014for comment, and they did not respond by publication time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concern for the Children<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Erin Lee, the co-founder and executive director of Protect Kids Colorado, agreed with Caldwell\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee sued her daughter\u2019s Fort Collins school for allegedly violating her parental rights<\/a> by encouraging her daughter to transition behind her back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been working really hard to fight child sex trafficking because my girl got put on the conveyor belt of gender trafficking and then it opened my eyes to how many child victims there are in this state,\u201d Lee told The Daily Signal in an interview Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill would decriminalize \u201cholding a place of prostitution and window displays, so talk about normalizing this practice on Main Street for children,\u201d she said. \u201cIt just becomes a normal facet of life for children walking down Main Street to see a place of prostitution, Amsterdam-style.\u201d (Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands, is known for its red-light district.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGiven OnlyFans culture\u2014these kids are already being brought up to think that it\u2019s normal to sell yourself and everything is highly sexualized for teenagers\u2014I believe it\u2019s a step on the run towards pedophilia,\u201d Lee warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macy Petty, a legislative strategist with Concerned Women for America, told The Daily Signal that Colorado legislators seek to \u201cnormalize the buying and selling of humans.\u201d She warned that the legislation \u201cplaces prostituted women in dangerous situations, increases the risk of violence and exploitation, and reduces women to commodities for sexual purchase.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colorado a \u2018Testing Ground\u2019 for Radical Bills<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Caldwell, the minority leader, noted that Garcia and Stewart previously sponsored HB25-1312, a bill that would have removed kids from parents\u2019 custody<\/a> if the parents refused to honor the children\u2019s transgender identities. While the bill ultimately passed, Democrats substantially amended it following national outrage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chase Davis, lead pastor at The Well Church in Boulder and leader of the Christ Over Colorado movement, told The Daily Signal that the Centennial State has \u201cbecome their testing ground for bills like this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis recalled the HB25-1312 debate last year, in which Colorado Democrats compared concerned parents who opposed transgender ideology with the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis warned that many Colorado Democrats \u201cjust want to punish Christians.\u201d He recalled the saga of Jack Phillips<\/a>, the Colorado Christian baker who faced discrimination claims when he refused to craft a custom cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLast year, they compared anyone who doesn\u2019t believe in radical gender ideology as equivalent to the KKK<\/a>,\u201d he noted. \u201cThey have no interest in partnering with evangelicals\u2014they have nothing but contempt for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked if he would describe the bill as groundbreaking, Davis said, \u201cIt is groundbreaking only in the sense it\u2019s going to open portals to hell \u2026 letting out demons in our state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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