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You have cause and effect backwards. Historically 'trafficking' meant human trafficking for the purposes of prostitution. The terminology creep to extend that t
by dbspin 5y ago
You have cause and effect backwards. Historically 'trafficking' meant human trafficking for the purposes of prostitution. The terminology creep to extend that to any kind of organised prostitution (for example brothels), is absolutely the result of the Christian right, as is the war on porn. Here's one piece Wired ran in 2015 exploring that - https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/03/christians-and-sex-trafficking-how-evangelicals-made-it-a-cause-celebre.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/03/christians-and-sex-...
Here's a deeper journal article exploring the same territory from 2014 - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5305/amerjintelaw.108.4.0609?seq=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5305/amerjintelaw.108.4.0609...
- zozbot234 5y agoUnfortunately, normalizing organised prostitution creates what amounts to a safe haven for human trafficking - this is a key part of the debate. It really seems to be the case that a voluntary mass market in "organized prostitution" is in fact unsustainable because any such attempt will be abused by human traffickers. Niche escorting services may survive, but only because their focus on perceived quality makes them less vulnerable to being taken over in this manner - and it's not clear so far how a separate, more permissive regime for these more resilent services could be created as a matter of law.