Great piece -- well argued and timely. I certainly realize from reading it that I was insufficiently skeptical about the whole anti-trafficking thing. It's no

Great piece -- well argued and timely. I certainly realize from reading it that I was insufficiently skeptical about the whole anti-trafficking thing. It's not that actual sex slavery is not abhorrent -- of course it is. And it does exist. But as Ms. Brown explains, hard evidence that it is a large and growing problem is extremely hard to come by. And the efforts nominally being made to combat it are mostly actually going toward criminalizing ordinary prostitution. The vice squad has figured out how to turn on the money tap by pushing the emotional button labelled "slavery". Indeed, I just the other day read an online appeal by a young woman arrested for being a teenage prostitute. The fact that that could happen -- and it's not a unique occurrence, as Ms. Brown mentions -- shows that the anti-trafficking story is a lie, because the rhetoric of the movement is that an underage prostitute is always a victim, never a criminal. Well, if you really think someone is a victim, the last thing you do is arrest them!