Zohran Mamdani’s support for legalizing prostitution is vile

Realizing that his pro-prostitution posturing won’t fly with city voters, Zohran Mamdani is trying to hide behind . . . Bill de Blasio.

Seriously.

Mamdani’s record is too clear to shake: He has said over and over that he wants to decriminalize prostitution — or “sex work,” as he and his fellow radicals call it, as if the euphemism somehow makes the reality any less awful.

They want you to imagine high-end hookers, not the far greater numbers of women forced to sell their bodies to benefit brutal pimps, nor the countless girls kidnapped and otherwise trafficked into the trade.

Asked Wednesday about his longtime support for this rancid industry, Mamdani deflected, saying it’s about “the outcomes of public safety.” 

As if there’s any “safety” in women selling their bodies for money. 

The Democratic nominee added that he’d look to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s approach to prostitution because “it created far more safety” than we’ve seen since.

In fact, de Blasio only joined the rush to embrace “sex work” as his mayoralty was ending and the left was trying to expand the “reform” thinking that had already given New York the no-bail law, “violence interrupters,” a let-’em-lose Parole Board, pot legalization and a host of other dubious “progress.”

Please note: Andrew Cuomo, who’s now preaching on the horrors of hookers to embarrass Mamdani, in early 2021 signed a law repealing statutes against loitering for the purpose of prostitution.

Progressives, in short, laid the ground for the explosion of prostitution that soon followed along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens and in the “Penn Track” section of Brooklyn.

As always, gang activity, illegal-drug dealing and other disorder rushed in along with the flesh trade.

In other words, it’s precisely Mamdani’s favored “decriminalization” approach that’s brought the “outcomes of public safety” he now deems inferior.

Incidentally, this is an area where Mamdani and his Democratic Socialists don’t want to follow Scandinavia.

You see, the “Nordic model” on prostitution looks to “curb demand” by arresting pimps and clients, while offering prostitutes pro-social options to leave “the life.” 

That’s no good, per Mamdani, because “it guarantees continued police raids at sex workers’ places of business.”  

Well, yeah: That’s how you catch people breaking the law.

But: “You can’t police customers without policing sex workers,” insists top Mamdani ally City Councilwoman Tiffany Caban (D-Astoria), as if policing were inherently oppressive.

Of course, “oppressive” is just what Caban and Mamdani believe about policing, though Zohran’s now doing his best to fudge on that, too.

You needn’t be some hidebound traditional moralist to see having sex for money as inherently dehumanizing; it’s the advocates who insist it’s “empowering” who’ve left reality behind.

Mamdani is committed to a host of absurd beliefs that he’s now trying to conceal, but the most repulsive may be the ones that would welcome New York City becoming a magnet for the kind of scum who sell women.