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Similarly, anti-prostitution activists cheer that Backpage removed adult classifieds.[0] If you really want to prevent abuse of sex workers, you need to legaliz
by seibelj 10y ago
Similarly, anti-prostitution activists cheer that Backpage removed adult classifieds.[0] If you really want to prevent abuse of sex workers, you need to legalize the trade and bring it into the open. By driving it further underground, you just cause more harm to the people you want to save. I can't understand how people make the same mistake over, and over, and over.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/us/backpage-ads-sex-trafficking.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/us/backpage-ads-sex-traff...
- praptak 10y agoThis assumes anti-prostitution is about sex workers and not moral outrage at sex being easily available outside marriage.
- _greim_ 10y agoWhy can't it be about both? As far as I can tell, large-scale movements comprise a mix of underlying motives.
- sneak 10y agoFor drugs, anyway, it's because it has nothing to do with harm reduction. The war on drugs was created solely out of white supremacy, and now continues because it is a tremendous flow of cash to those in and adjacent to government that directly profit from a huge (mostly minority) prison population. It has nothing to do with drugs, just simple racism and money.