What effect did the progressive reformers' approach to the social ills of prostitution have on the sex trade?
A) Their anti-vice crusades closed red-light districts and brothels but pushed prostitution into the street.
B) Progressive laws against prostitution pushed the sex trade into Mexico, where it flourished thanks to American sex tourism.
C) Progressive sympathy for the plight of women led to lenient laws that did not affect prostitution much.
D) Progressives condemned women harshly for having an inborn tendency toward moral corruption, causing prostitutes to ignore their messages and the trade to flourish.
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