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I cannot believe my eyes and the comments there. The logic is "human traffic happens because prostitution is not legal" how is it different than far-right activ
by finikytou 6y ago
I cannot believe my eyes and the comments there.
The logic is "human traffic happens because prostitution is not legal" how is it different than far-right activists saying "police shooting people to death happens because people commit crimes".
You need to wake up seriously. it is not because you think it empowers women and should be legalized that there isn't a huge human trafficking issue to address even when legal (and in some countries it makes it worse). It is a myth and it is dangerous to communicate the lies that legalizing will solve everything when talking about human lives.
"State Department estimated that between 15,000 and 50,000 women and girls are trafficked each year into the United States." if for you it is a small number I dont know what to say...
- danans 6y agoThey aren't stopping prosecution of patrons, just stopping prosecution of the sex workers themselves.
- armchairhacker 6y agoidk if the argument is that legalizing prostitution decreases sex slavery or that it just doesn't increase it. You're 100% right that even if we legalize prostitution people will still be exploited. But if we criminalize prostitution people will still be exploited. And you're right that some countries allow prostitution in a way that makes exploitation easier or even legal. But that doesn't mean other countries can't do it a better way by allowing prostitution but heavily regulating it in order to protect the prostitutes. Moreover, the real issue they are tackling in the article is that the DA is no longer arresting the prostitutes. Whether or not you think prostitution should be legal, hopefully we can all agree that punishing the prostitutes (the people who would be exploited!) for furthering exploitation is absurd.