It's more complicated than that - even for those being trafficked, in-calls and indoor prostitution are safer than street/outdoor prostitution: http://scunning

It's more complicated than that - even for those being trafficked, in-calls and indoor prostitution are safer than street/outdoor prostitution: http://scunning.com/resubmission_july2016.pdf http://scunning.com/resubmission_july2016.pdf Services like backpage allow sex workers to vet clients ahead of time, control the time and place of an assignation, have that indoors, and then leave. Certainly some of those sex workers are trafficked, but not all are, and driving either population out onto the street for sex work puts them in greater danger of violence, sexual assault, and/or STIs.