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"Run-of-the-mill" in that sentence modifies "prostitution". When I read that person's sentence I think, "So, what kind of prostitution charge is average or not
by Pyxl101 10y ago
"Run-of-the-mill" in that sentence modifies "prostitution". When I read that person's sentence I think, "So, what kind of prostitution charge is average or not special? That kind." That's what they think, anyway. Whether this is true or false could be validated by seeing what kind of prostitution cases are commonly brought vs uncommonly brought.
- stephenr 10y ago> So, what kind of prostitution charge is average or not special? That kind. I don't even want to know how you consider a child prostitution charge "average or not special".
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- anoctopus 10y agoIt's not that these charges are average, it's that trafficking charges are a distinct group from prostitution; prostitution charges are the far more standard group, and hence are run-of-the-mill, even though the specific charges within that group are not typical of that group.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> trafficking charges are a distinct group from prostitution Incorrect. Sex trafficking includes (among other commercial coerced sex) any instance of prostitution which involves anything other than free and full consent from someone with capacity to consent to sex; minors by definition lack capacity to consent, so pimping a minor is an offense which falls completely within the bounds of sex trafficking. (Unlike simple pimping, solicitation, etc., which may overlap with sex trafficking, but also include acts which are not sex trafficking.)
- ZoF 10y agoYour comments here are based on emotion, others are approaching this analytically. This stuff happens; just like murder, rape, arson, etc. It's irrational to get upset about someone using a common idiom to convey that this isn't a typical instance of child prostitution.
- DanBC 10y ago> child prostitution Child sexual exploitation. The vast majority of children involved aren't there through free choice.
- ZoF 10y agoSure...? I didn't intend to imply otherwise.
- DanBC 10y agoThe term "child prostitution" is associated is a few countries with some severe failings of law enforcement to protect children from harm. Notably, in the UK some police forces were saying that children could chose to become prostitutes, and these children were promiscuous.
- Anderkent 10y agoOnly in America you would think that a 16 or 17 year old would never choose to have sex for benefits unless forced into it.
- ZoF 10y agoThe person you're replying to is from the UK. Why the anti-American sentiment?
- Anderkent 10y agoEh, apologies. Mostly a cheap shot. It does seem to me people in USA are more prudish about sex and overprotective of children, to the point of denying the underage any agency. But it's a more nuanced discussion, and it's easier to write a snark.