DOWNTOWN RALLY Sex Workers Criticize Law Enforcement - Washington Post

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Anonymous wrote:Umm, PP, have you ever been to Nevada. You can order your pleasure from a menu of services. Prostitutes are strictly (so I hear from people in the legal community there) regulated and regularly tested. It is very much like a business (like you may have seen on the HBO specials). These are women who made choices, not victims necessarily (not being one of them I obv don't know and neither do you). But, they are taxed and treated as a business. I've known people who have been to these places . . . This is what they relate.

SO, you have in fact lived to see the day. Congrats.

ummmm, have you ever been to Amsterdam? The country is fighting a fierce battle against human trafficking. They gave them an inch they took a mile. It is the #1 country in Eurpoe where young children and women are forced into the sex trade. These women are working as legal prostitutes against their will. They are being controlled by fear, often times not seeking help. There is a government effort to root these sex slaves out and get them help, but thousands of sex slaves are


ostitution in Amsterdam is a mess. Its a more appropriate example to look at if you want to study the


widespread leagalizatiton of prostitution. The crime and drugs it drags is another topic all together.

Thank-you for this response, in confirms many of my instinctual objections.