Is prostitution now considered trafficking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I first really started widely hearing the term sex trafficking about 10 years ago. Prior to that, I considered sex trafficking to be where victims were essentially kidnapped and forced into prostitution. It's pretty evident that the term is now used for situations that are less coercive than what I had previously assumed.

So are most forms of prostitution now considered trafficking? And would the pimps of yesteryear (prior to the 2000's) now be labeled traffickers?

Whatever the political buzz word of the time is. It's all so meaningless and tiresome.

It's the world's oldest profession and will never be eradicated by the big government socialists or the puritanical religious cults.

This reasoning is ludicrous.

We will never eliminate 100% of any crime. That doesn’t mean the answer is to legalize it. We can’t stop all murders or bank robberies, either. Wanna legalize those?

The goals should be to reduce, penalize, & minimize unwanted behaviors, not set unrealistic goals & give up when they aren’t met.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you think a pimp does????

Handle a lot of the HR functions? Set up the orientation. Help the employee secure college scholarships. Find a good dental plan. Help the hoors get internships. Teach them the basics of fine restaurants & polo so they know what to do when Richard Gere takes them out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much of prostitution is sex trafficking. It’s very rare to find a sex worker who is not being coerced.

I went to HS with two girls from totally ordinary UMC families with no abuse history at all, and both started doing amateur paid porn and escort work while in college, just for the money and the thrill of it.

No pimps, no coercion, nothing. Just because they were having fun and making quite a bit of untaxed income. At one point I even considered it myself, but I was too scared someone who knew me would find out and tell my parents.

If they were paid, it was not “amateur”. Also this sounds like a dudes fantasy fiction. Prostitutes (sorry, escorts, lol) are not pretty, normal, UMC college women looking for fancy nights out and to make money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much of prostitution is sex trafficking. It’s very rare to find a sex worker who is not being coerced.

I went to HS with two girls from totally ordinary UMC families with no abuse history at all, and both started doing amateur paid porn and escort work while in college, just for the money and the thrill of it.

No pimps, no coercion, nothing. Just because they were having fun and making quite a bit of untaxed income. At one point I even considered it myself, but I was too scared someone who knew me would find out and tell my parents.

How did they market themselves as prostitutes to rich men? Did they just wander around country clubs and expensive nightclubs and offer their services? You know, in between classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In many parts of Latin America prostitution is perfectly legal but “pimping” is not. That’s the difference between prostitution and sex trafficking

Yes this is how it should be. Pimping is trafficking

Pimpin’

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In many parts of Latin America prostitution is perfectly legal but “pimping” is not. That’s the difference between prostitution and sex trafficking

Exactly. We should model our sex laws on those of Latin America. They got their mierda together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much of prostitution is sex trafficking. It’s very rare to find a sex worker who is not being coerced.

I went to HS with two girls from totally ordinary UMC families with no abuse history at all, and both started doing amateur paid porn and escort work while in college, just for the money and the thrill of it.

No pimps, no coercion, nothing. Just because they were having fun and making quite a bit of untaxed income. At one point I even considered it myself, but I was too scared someone who knew me would find out and tell my parents.

How did they market themselves as prostitutes to rich men? Did they just wander around country clubs and expensive nightclubs and offer their services? You know, in between classes.

I got to know the inner workings of some strip clubs a while ago. The dancers were from every conceivable background. Some actually were college students & grad students. Sometimes fairly famous porn actors would work as strippers when things were slow for them. Quite a few did nude modeling (print, internet). It was known that for the right price quite a few could be had for an evening or longer (eg, well-off guys would take a few of them on vacation to Miami or Las Vegas for a week). And many of the most popular were just really attractive suburban wives & mothers.

To answer the question of how ordinary middle-class college students working as sex workers would meet wealthy men, I would say a common way would be at strip clubs. There are all sorts of men at them, including pro athletes & other guys with money to burn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much of prostitution is sex trafficking. It’s very rare to find a sex worker who is not being coerced.

I went to HS with two girls from totally ordinary UMC families with no abuse history at all, and both started doing amateur paid porn and escort work while in college, just for the money and the thrill of it.

No pimps, no coercion, nothing. Just because they were having fun and making quite a bit of untaxed income. At one point I even considered it myself, but I was too scared someone who knew me would find out and tell my parents.

How did they market themselves as prostitutes to rich men? Did they just wander around country clubs and expensive nightclubs and offer their services? You know, in between classes.

Ummmmm.....the Internet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much of prostitution is sex trafficking. It’s very rare to find a sex worker who is not being coerced.

I went to HS with two girls from totally ordinary UMC families with no abuse history at all, and both started doing amateur paid porn and escort work while in college, just for the money and the thrill of it.

No pimps, no coercion, nothing. Just because they were having fun and making quite a bit of untaxed income. At one point I even considered it myself, but I was too scared someone who knew me would find out and tell my parents.

If they were paid, it was not “amateur”. Also this sounds like a dudes fantasy fiction. Prostitutes (sorry, escorts, lol) are not pretty, normal, UMC college women looking for fancy nights out and to make money.

This isn’t true. Some look like models, they are blazing hot which is why rich guys pay them.

[Anonymous]

Sincere question to OP?

Did you actually think that prostitutes were free agents or private contractor?

How actually did u think that worked.

Btw your nail salon girl, trafficked girl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much of prostitution is sex trafficking. It’s very rare to find a sex worker who is not being coerced.

I went to HS with two girls from totally ordinary UMC families with no abuse history at all, and both started doing amateur paid porn and escort work while in college, just for the money and the thrill of it.

No pimps, no coercion, nothing. Just because they were having fun and making quite a bit of untaxed income. At one point I even considered it myself, but I was too scared someone who knew me would find out and tell my parents.

How did they market themselves as prostitutes to rich men? Did they just wander around country clubs and expensive nightclubs and offer their services? You know, in between classes.

Ummmmm.....the Internet?

Ummm … maybe now … but no they do hang out at high stakes lol aces like hotel bars and managers will recognize them and throw them out of nice places.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Much of prostitution is sex trafficking. It’s very rare to find a sex worker who is not being coerced.

I went to HS with two girls from totally ordinary UMC families with no abuse history at all, and both started doing amateur paid porn and escort work while in college, just for the money and the thrill of it.

No pimps, no coercion, nothing. Just because they were having fun and making quite a bit of untaxed income. At one point I even considered it myself, but I was too scared someone who knew me would find out and tell my parents.

How did they market themselves as prostitutes to rich men? Did they just wander around country clubs and expensive nightclubs and offer their services? You know, in between classes.

Ummmmm.....the Internet?

Ummm … maybe now … but no they do hang out at high stakes lol aces like hotel bars and managers will recognize them and throw them out of nice places.

LOL

You’re apparently young. In the 80s and early 90s the Prime Rib on K street was a high end escort playground for Washington’s rich and horny. It was legendary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've known a few prosititutes in my life. Of the ones I met, they fell into two categories:

1. Did it for quick money and desperation. Typically addicted to drugs and need enough for another hit. The (sad) side-effect of drug use is you tend to lose weight since you don't have an appetite, which makes these people more "valued" on the market since skinny people fit a more typical beauty ideal.

2. To earn money. It's a mix of easy money and fun. These are rarely addicts, though I've seen one or two do coke or marijuana when offered. They are higher-end and aren't roaming the streets. All clients are found through websites or referrals, and clients pay well. There's more "dating" involved here, and they like going to fancy restaurants and the rest of it. To some extent, they also pick their clients.

There is certainly a third category which is those who are coerced and forced into it. I just haven't met anyone in that situation so can't comment on it.

I have met only #3 in real life. #1 and #2 in movies, tv, and on news only for me.

[Anonymous]

We need to decriminalize sex-work like Europe does.

[Anonymous]

So-called anti prostitution laws are all created originally by men or extreme male-majorities.

Dictating to women how they are allowed to make a living or what they do for work, is paternalistic and misogynistic.