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That doesn't work out as well as it sounds. Unsuprisingly, the amount of women willing to have sex with strangers for money is relatively low. Studies have show

• toyg 5y ago
  That's a function of massive income inequality across countries, though. Fix that, and the incentive for trafficking disappears.
  • tengbretson 5y ago
    Let's start with the assumption that we will have to solve this problem while under the constraints of actual reality.
    • toyg 5y ago
      Are you saying that massive economic inequality is a-OK...? These are all big problems we ain't gonna fix in 5 years or 10.
      • cjaybo 5y ago
        It's clear that they were pointing out exactly what you're getting at in your second sentence: any solution that that depends on solving global income inequality is practically impossible over any reasonable timeline, and therefore not worth much discussion.
  • lotsofpulp 5y ago
    But fixing income inequality would presumably reduce the number of women willing to sell sex, so you're back to square 1.
    • toyg 5y ago
      That also depends on other factors. When being a prostitute means being a criminal, obviously it's not desirable.
    • johnnyanmac 5y ago
      Fixing income inequality creates more opportunities to perform activities, which leads to more socialization leading to more potential romantic encounters. Hard to think about a spouse when you're making $8/hr but spending 33% of your life behind a counter. I also wager a portion of the people who feel they "need but can't get sex" may also learn that what they desired wasn't what they actually cared that much about. In this regard, I guess one can argue that prostitution is a crutch to a much larger problem that may never truly be solved.
      • spoonjim 5y ago
        Do you think lower income people have less sex?
        • johnnyanmac 5y ago
          In the grand scheme of the world definition of lower income, no. I haven't looked too deeply into it, but apparently 3rd world countries have as much or more sex, but have less access to birth control. In the context of "first world lower income", I'd wager there's a loose correlation. i.e the incel movement is one mostly formed from a frustrated lower-middle/middle class (which in the world context, means many americans for the sake of discussion). Another comment in this post heard something similar as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27041400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27041400 I'd be interested in any studies that disprove this notion. I'll admit most of this comment is conjecture.
  • waterhouse 5y ago
    I don't think it's income inequality. It's legality-of-prostitution inequality. That is, the traffickers decided to move their operations from countries where prostitution was illegal to countries where it's legal, because, all else being equal, it's easier to operate in the latter. The link doesn't claim that the total amount of trafficking increased, and the quoted results don't favor the "net increase" hypothesis over the "movement" hypothesis.