Is there reliable data either way about legalization increasing human trafficking?
FWIW, New Zealand legalised prostitution fully in 2003, and it seems to have had no negative effects. There was a major review 5 years after the law was passed (so 2008). Safety up, crime down, fewer sex workers on the streets, and at that time, no instances of human trafficking for the sex industry were able to be identified. (Come to that, I'm not sure any have been since either.)
Of course, individual laws exist in a larger framework of laws and culture, so it's not always clear that adopting a single law will have the same effects in other jurisdictions. Still, the NZ experience has been almost unremittingly positive.
Some sources (that I've only skimmed a bit -- and they don't uniformly agree):
https://www.endslaverynow.org/blog/articles/faq-will-legaliz...
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/07/why-sex-work-should-be-d...
https://inquiringintothings.wordpress.com/2020/08/04/does-le...
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/decreasing-huma...
The fact that prostitution is illegal is part of what empowers bad people to victimize others: As soon as you have turned your first trick, you are guilty of a crime and cannot go to the police to turn them in without confessing to the crime you just committed.
That's exactly how child molesters also operate: By making the child feel complicit so they won't tell anyone.
Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extraction of organs or tissues, including for surrogacy and ova removal. Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. Human trafficking is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim's rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation. Human trafficking is the trade in people, especially women and children, and does not necessarily involve the movement of the person from one place to another.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking
What you are talking about is illegal immigration.
No matter what you think about prostitution, as long as no coercion is involved, it is none of your business what other people do.
"If selling is legal and fucking is legal, selling fucking should be legal."
If you compare that to some things in the US:
Man Who Served 20 Years in Prison for Stealing 2 Shirts Freed https://finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/man-served-20-years-p...
Even if you consider this a reasonable punishment, the average costs to imprison a person in the US are about USD 30k per year and maybe you should reconsider your view.
Just because you wouldn’t want your daughter doing it is entirely different from saying everyone should be criminalized for participating in it.
The US may be different since it's social security system is very primitive. There, the choice would perhaps be between working as a prostitute and starving. Which, obviously, isn't a free choice.
"You will lose your unemployment benefit if you turn down an offer of "suitable" work without "good cause." Suitable work is work that fits your training, experience, skills, health, physical fitness, prior earnings, and is within 20 miles of your home"
Two other large states had similar requirements. I could not find any with a "you must take any available job" requirement. There's no way that could be even vaguely construed as requiring someone to take a sex work job if it's available.
Best to keep both of those things illegal to spare the dignity of my daughter. Better to lock people in jail if they attempt those things. Better to turn people who might actually enjoy farming into criminals.
So since the prosts can still be prosecuted, we still have many for the east, on the streets by all weather, working in awful condition for a low amount.
I live in HK now, where prostitution is fully legal (prosts won't be arrested as long as no pimp involved and one client at a time) and it's better, we don't see them in the streets and the fares are much much MUCH hire compared to France. They seem less drugged addict possibly.
It's anecdotal and there are so many differences between France and HK that I'm not sure what I'm comparing exactly :D But, more legal protection seems to provide for better conditions, not a surprise.
This is ambiguously worded. It could mean:
- Is anyone knowledgeable about European countries (all of which have made prostitution legal)?
- Is anyone knowledgeable about those European countries in which prostitution has been made legal?
It's surprisingly difficult to word this unambiguously, but from context I think the author means the latter.
In practice, the offering of social insurance is hardly used, and I would say you will have a hard time getting a receipt from a sex worker with displayed VAT (or the legal requirement to express VAT excemption if the sex worker is below the legal income threshold).
Anyways, trafficking is still a thing, and you as a customer can be arrested if you have reason to believe the sex worker is not willingly offering services but coerced or forced to do so.
Some progressive types keep talking about legalizing farming, but all I can think of is that it will increase the smuggling of humans to contribute to the farming workforce.
Some percentage of the girls are doing it willingly, but most are imported and essentially have no choice.
They try to add regulations to help, like only allowing girls themselves to rent spaces, but that tends to drive more underground.