Stigmatizing children is not the purpose of laws criminalizing child prostitution. Instead, it is to remove economic incentive both from the children and the pimps who use them, and to legally remove the children from practicing the trade. Without the tools the criminalization in law provides, the police cannot arrest the children and remove them from their pimps or the next John who would sexually abuse them. The thinking in this decriminalization is shallow, foolish and immoral and could only happen in a state run by liberal non-thinkers.