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I'm surprised they'd say it decreases trafficking. It seems it would increase it.

DoreenMichele 6y ago
Why would it seem it seem like that? The fact that prostitution is illegal is part of what empowers bad people to victimize others: As soon as you have turned your first trick, you are guilty of a crime and cannot go to the police to turn them in without confessing to the crime you just committed. That's exactly how child molesters also operate: By making the child feel complicit so they won't tell anyone.
- umanwizard 6y ago
  Human trafficking doesn’t necessarily mean victimizing anyone, in my understanding - it can also mean someone being paid to smuggle someone else into a country voluntarily (in contravention of immigration laws). I would suspect this form of trafficking to increase if prostitution is legal and widespread.
  - DoreenMichele 6y ago
    That contradicts everything I have ever heard about the use of the term. From Wikipedia: Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extraction of organs or tissues, including for surrogacy and ova removal. Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. Human trafficking is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim's rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation. Human trafficking is the trade in people, especially women and children, and does not necessarily involve the movement of the person from one place to another. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking What you are talking about is illegal immigration.
    - umanwizard 6y ago
      I guess what I was thinking of is “human smuggling” according to this page.

Why would it seem it seem like that? The fact that prostitution is illegal is part of what empowers bad people to victimize others: As soon as you have turned your first trick, you are guilty of a crime and cannot go to the police to turn them in without confessing to the crime you just committed. That's exactly how child molesters also operate: By making the child feel complicit so they won't tell anyone.

umanwizard 6y ago
Human trafficking doesn’t necessarily mean victimizing anyone, in my understanding - it can also mean someone being paid to smuggle someone else into a country voluntarily (in contravention of immigration laws). I would suspect this form of trafficking to increase if prostitution is legal and widespread.
- DoreenMichele 6y ago
  That contradicts everything I have ever heard about the use of the term. From Wikipedia: Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extraction of organs or tissues, including for surrogacy and ova removal. Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. Human trafficking is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim's rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation. Human trafficking is the trade in people, especially women and children, and does not necessarily involve the movement of the person from one place to another. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking What you are talking about is illegal immigration.
  - umanwizard 6y ago
    I guess what I was thinking of is “human smuggling” according to this page.