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A red light district is for sex work. Sex trafficking and sex work can be distinguished (i.e. one can have sex work without sex trafficking).
by verbify 4y ago
A red light district is for sex work. Sex trafficking and sex work can be distinguished (i.e. one can have sex work without sex trafficking).
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> Sex trafficking and sex work can be distinguished (i.e. one can have sex work without sex trafficking). Note that this contradicts nearly all official usage of the term "sex trafficking", which just refers to sex work. Far and away the most common kind of sex trafficking is a woman working independently trafficking herself.
- icedchai 4y agoDespite any official misuse the term, actual "trafficking" is involuntary. One cannot traffick themselves.
- djbebs 4y agoTraficking has nothing to do with it being involuntary. Many trafficked people did so voluntarily and of their own initiative.
- icedchai 4y agoSorry, but if they weren't forced, coerced, or tricked/otherwise manipulated into into it, then they're not being "trafficked." There has been an attempt over the past several years, at least in the US, to redefined the meaning of the word to encompass all forms of sex work. To say that someone, working alone and of their own free will, is "being trafficked", is absolutely absurd and is what we were discussing. https://humantraffickinghotline.org/what-human-trafficking/myths-misconceptions https://humantraffickinghotline.org/what-human-trafficking/m...
- carbadtraingood 4y agoThe idea that a woman can traffick herself if she is interested in doing sex work is nonsense. Sex work and sex exploitation are not the same thing. (Though I do not deny there exists exploitation in much of sex work.)
- late2part 4y agoExploitation by politicians?
- carbadtraingood 4y agoSex exploitation happens from politicians, yes, but also cops, johns, pimps, traffickers, etc etc. The less legal sex work is, the more underground it needs to be. The more underground it is, the less recourse women have to address exploitation.
- colinmhayes 4y agoAnd this contradicts nearly all colloquial usage of the term "sex trafficking" which most understand to mean coercive.