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Originally Posted by smooth
Were you addressing this to me?
I should have been more explicit, I thought everyone knew that prostitution accounts for over 2 million women and children being enslaved and smuggled internationally.
It's been in the news for the past decade.
Very few of our US prostitutes are consenting adults. Even the bulk of those are impoverished, beaten, and controlled by violent men.
Young girls comprise a large segment of our prostitution population. They aren't consenting, and they aren't adults. Most often they are tricked by dreams of opportunity and sucked into a life of drug dependency.
The bulk of our prostitutes are enslaved women and children from other countries. They pour into our nation by the tens of thousands every year at the hands of crime syndicates who either promise citizenship and stable employment or snatch them from their villages.
I should also add that in no case that I know of do prostitutes have control over their money. They work for others--so I take issue with the notion that women and men singularly exhange money and relating this to some sort of contractual agreement.
The money either goes to the slave traders, pimps, or Madame.
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While I think that for the most part, you are correct, I also think that there are more exceptions to the above than you may be aware of.
There was just an article in my local paper (do they have "sweeps weeks?") regarding strippers and prostitutes. These days, there are so many internet ads for "escorts" that pimps or whatever are not as ubiquitous as in prior years. Simply put, the working girls don't need them as much.
I also had difficulty seeing a direct connection between legalization and the slave trade.
Yes, as you said, prostitution is linked to the slave trade, but I don't see legalization changing that for better or worse.