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If you can't speak English to the prostitute or she seems afraid, it would be a suspicious situation.

"child sex traffickers"

I don't know where you get that from.

It was one of the big reasons the gov't claimed they shut it down. https://u.osu.edu/osuhtblog/2018/04/17/backpage-com-and-chil...

Didn't that turn out to be bullshit though?

Probably. But nobody knows for certain, the government destroyed the evidence.

Even so, it's a dumb reason when the alternative is to keep it going as a trap.

It is dumb if you want to protect people.

Not so dumb when the goal is to look tough and win votes...

That's what it's called if the person you are paying for sex with is not an adult.

Reasonable mistake, must happen all the time when people have sex with someone with no breasts, hairless in the pertinent areas, and don't talk at all with them.

"I just thought she was a late bloomer your honor, her manager assured me she was 18 going on 19"

What a creep.

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