The very term “sex trafficking” is a kind of newspeak to make a very common thing sound like the worst possible version of it (when you hear the term, you proba

The very term “sex trafficking” is a kind of newspeak to make a very common thing sound like the worst possible version of it (when you hear the term, you probably think of someone being stuffed into a hot shipping container and moved around like a full-on slave). Sex trafficking is just any kind of work involved in organizing prostitution that isn’t prostitution itself - which can still be very unethical and at its worse the thing I described, but also something fully consented to by all parties. If you consider sex trafficking to be “all prostitution that isn’t 100% freelance” you might reconsider whether it’s a purely bad thing. Of course, because of the use of the term “sex trafficking” by design arguing from this premise isn’t something people and especially politicians are willing to do in public, which is why the term has had so much success in criminalizing and prosecuting prostitution in recent years