• MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    No but these absurd questions show up faster and faster as the government legitimizes sex work.

    And so do trafficked immigrants who are kidnapped and coerced into the sex work industry by people threatening to kill their family while using Facebook Live standing in front of that family’s home back in their country of birth.

    That shit has been happening for a decade. And it is why lots of the liberal western European countries have curtailed their red light districts.

    There is no way to save those people without destroying privacy.

    https://reddthat.com/post/8968028 - “European Parliament rejects mass scanning of private messages”

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      We have legalised sex work in my country.

      Don’t remember these questions ever coming up.

      The trafficking can also be dealt with, through means such as actually investigating workplaces and ensuring they’re compliant with workplace laws.

      Not to mention, people are already trafficked while it’s illegal as well, so you’re not helping the situation by making the victims criminals who will now be less likely to engage with police.

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        1 year ago

        That’s because your country is not US and likely does not have significant fraction of religious population.

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      Governments can legalize sex work but they can’t legitimize it, because governments don’t dictate societal attitudes. (Well, they sort of can through propaganda, but they shouldn’t. A democratic government should reflect the attitudes of its people, not the other way around.)

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      There is no way to save those people without destroying privacy.

      I disagree. Legalizing prostitution and fighting the social stigma would prevent many of those crimes.

      If you criminalize a service that will always be in demand, you won’t kill the market - you’ll just turn it into an unregulated black market run by criminals, who are much less inhibited than legal employers to use any means at their disposal (even threats and violence) to maximize their profit.

      The exact same thing happened during the prohibition.

      But if you have a legalized market… using threats and violence to force people to perform i.e. call center work is much less common.