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If only we could ban online advertising of the sex trade we could eliminate the worlds oldest profession. Lets continue to make it illegal for consenting adults

If only we could ban online advertising of the sex trade we could eliminate the worlds oldest profession. Lets continue to make it illegal for consenting adults to have sex with other consenting adults, so that prostitutes can't go to the cops when abused by pimps. And so the incremental penalties for pimps trafficking children are as small as possible.

AlexandrB 9y ago
Uhhh. Sex trafficking != prostitution and involves forced sexual exploitation of unwilling or underage victims [1]. I'm not sure what you're going on about. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_trafficking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_trafficking
- miracle2k 9y ago
  The two are related, because one major pillar of activism around "modern slavery" is based on opposition to sex work (the others being prurient interest, a kind of western saviour syndrome, and it being lucrative). One random link I followed from the Wikipedia article is the source for the statement "Europe has the highest number of sex slaves per capita in the world". http://realstars.eu/for-fair-sex/ http://realstars.eu/for-fair-sex/ The page prominently advocates for the Nordic model.
- valuearb 9y ago
  Legal prostitution destroys the profit making potential of sex trafficking. When you already can go to prison for pimping willing adult women, you have little disincentive to not expand into using violence to procure unwilling and underage victims too.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  > Sex trafficking != prostitution and involves forced sexual exploitation of unwilling or underage victims There is a substantial political movement, that crosses the feminist left to the paternalistic right, that holds that all prostitution is in some manner coerced and is a subset of sex trafficking, and this group is part of the core if support for every anti-sex-trafficking law, and even moreso for laws like the proposed one that strip well-established protection and target people who aren't sex traffickers for some conduct several steps removed from trafficking. While trafficking is a real problem that needs to be combatted, it's also the new banner under which the movement seeking ever more radical legislation to combat the existence of sex work is marching.
- DanBC 9y ago
  That's not the legal definition in England, which includes people who travel willingly to take part in sex work.

AlexandrB 9y ago

Uhhh. Sex trafficking != prostitution and involves forced sexual exploitation of unwilling or underage victims [1]. I'm not sure what you're going on about. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_trafficking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_trafficking

miracle2k 9y ago
The two are related, because one major pillar of activism around "modern slavery" is based on opposition to sex work (the others being prurient interest, a kind of western saviour syndrome, and it being lucrative). One random link I followed from the Wikipedia article is the source for the statement "Europe has the highest number of sex slaves per capita in the world". http://realstars.eu/for-fair-sex/ http://realstars.eu/for-fair-sex/ The page prominently advocates for the Nordic model.
valuearb 9y ago
Legal prostitution destroys the profit making potential of sex trafficking. When you already can go to prison for pimping willing adult women, you have little disincentive to not expand into using violence to procure unwilling and underage victims too.
dragonwriter 9y ago
> Sex trafficking != prostitution and involves forced sexual exploitation of unwilling or underage victims There is a substantial political movement, that crosses the feminist left to the paternalistic right, that holds that all prostitution is in some manner coerced and is a subset of sex trafficking, and this group is part of the core if support for every anti-sex-trafficking law, and even moreso for laws like the proposed one that strip well-established protection and target people who aren't sex traffickers for some conduct several steps removed from trafficking. While trafficking is a real problem that needs to be combatted, it's also the new banner under which the movement seeking ever more radical legislation to combat the existence of sex work is marching.
DanBC 9y ago
That's not the legal definition in England, which includes people who travel willingly to take part in sex work.