EAT THE RICH! Hawthorne, Ca Police Kill Dog(1) Photos du journal. Why is prostitution illegal? When he was attorney general, Eliot Spitzer had no trouble going after a "sophisticated prostitution ring.
" As governor, he apparently had no trouble patronizing one. The hypocrisy speaks for itself. But what about the oldest question about the oldest profession: Why, exactly, is prostitution illegal? Warren Commission Report.