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The real way to fight trafficking is legalization and regulation, including interviews with sex workers to detect coercion, then followups to help them. Since
by the_stc 9y ago
The real way to fight trafficking is legalization and regulation, including interviews with sex workers to detect coercion, then followups to help them.
Since fixing the laws is going to take a while, we've taken it upon ourselves. We're building such a superior solution for both sex providers and clients, it'll hurt trafficking like iTunes hurt music piracy.
- rxhernandez 9y agoNot that I don't support legalization, but I'm skeptical as to how much legalization would help. Put simply, can we expect new sex workers to come out of the woodwork to create the supply needed to make sex trafficking substantially less profitable? Are women and men suddenly and substantially going to start selling that service if it became legalized?
- ThrustVectoring 9y agoMoving it out of the black market itself is an effective price decrease - Johns can be expected to be willing to pay a premium to avoid the risk of prison.
- illumin8 9y agoTake a look at Rhode Island for an example of how this works in reality. The results were overwhelmingly positive: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-rhode-island-accidentally-legalized-prostitution-2014-7 http://www.businessinsider.com/how-rhode-island-accidentally...
- the_stc 9y agoLegalization and regulation. Require a license and periodic reviews. Just having easy, legal, sex available means a lot of the revenue dries up, which makes it harder to run the illegal operations.
- ameister14 9y agoDon't the UK, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands have fairly significant trafficking problems?