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[quote=Anonymous]Years ago, I worked for a USAID contractor that worked in HIV/AIDS research and programming.   We did a fair amount of published research on sex workers in South Africa.  Without fail, every one of them went into the trade voluntarily.  These women surveyed the options available to them without special skills, education, capital and undue exhaustion and concluded, quite reasonably, that being a prostitute for $100/day is a much better deal than stitching shoes or cleaning houses for $15/day.  Not a single instance of coercion to be found.

I'm sure some women are trafficked into the trade.  What you are discounting is that a big chunk, very big chunk of women who sell sex are doing it for the same reason you are a lawyer or a doctor - that's the best and the most profitable they can do with the assets they have.  The only difference is that you have education, work ethics and long-term vision, and they don't.  They aren't forced into it.  They just aren't particularly motivated to do actual work for money, because fucking is easier and brings in more cash.  It's not a good long-term strategy but not everyone looks long-term.[/quote]

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