No consensus.
What do you mean freedom, for whom?
It sounds so easy like that, freedom and modern as the key words and hey, how could we disagree?
Well. We can.
Pragmatically, we could say that as long as prostitution exists, the safety of the women (and men, why exclude them? Boys are vulnerable on the streets too you know) is paramount and therefore it would maybe be preferable to have a place where they can rest, get medical checks, have a chat, be looked after by each other and have access to social workers, get refrerred to methadone clinics or what have you. Likewise, for the unaddicted, it would be safer to work in a club than to just rely on a pimp or work from home or the street.
Ideally though, in the perfect world, there would be no such thing as prostitution. It commodifies people, it is degrading. So why not work towards rooting it out now? In order to discourage it, push it out of the city, do not legalise it and criminalise in stead.
Usually, people tend to lean one way or the other I guess, ending up somewhere on a scale between these.