By The New York Post Editorial Board
Zohran Mamdani figures you can’t handle the truth — the truth about his support for legalization of prostitution.
His campaign doesn’t want to talk about it at all — but can’t escape the fact that he’s still co-sponsoring an Assembly bill to “decriminalize” prostitution.
That means no arrests for hookers or johns; at most, the occasional desk appearance ticket, if police even bother with that. (And expect cops in Mamdani’s NYPD to be under orders against it.)
That doesn’t technically count as full-on legalization, plead his mouthpieces — but has the same result: “sex workers” able to freely ply their trade wherever they choose — or, more to the point, wherever their pimps demand.
Because prostitution absolutely is not just an unusual career path, as progressives insist: While a bare handful of “pros” might sincerely choose to sell their bodies for a living, it’s a tremendously unnatural and appalling route for nearly all women.
The overwhelming majority of prostitutes are seduced, coerced or outright trafficked into the flesh trade, an inherently dehumanizing business that brings blight into every area where it flourishes.
Anyone who doubts that can just take a stroll along the “Market of Sweethearts” on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens.
(And if you doubt that progressives see no problem with public prostitution, consider the clean-up-Roosevelt-Avenue prescription from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mamdani’s fellow Democratic Socialist: more trash cans.)
Again, for all his soft-pedaling in these final weeks of the mayoral race, Mamdani has been four-square for decriminalization from his first race for office in 2020, right along with ending all cash bail, complete drug decriminalization, massively defunding the NYPD and closing Rikers without building replacement jails.
Sitting on a fat lead in the polls, he’s hoping to keep voters in the dark, and avoiding questions as best he can.
Hence his dubious dodge of a WABC town hall, supposedly in protest of the network’s (now lapsed!) suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.
Mamdani wants voters distracted by all the wonderful things he’s promised, when in fact, cheaper hookers may be the only part of his “affordability” agenda that he can actually deliver on.
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— NY Post Opinion (@NYPostOpinion) September 23, 2025
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