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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Much of prostitution is sex trafficking. It’s very rare to find a sex worker who is not being coerced. [/quote]

This is based on your vast experience trying to?[/quote]

DP. According to this paper, 88% would like to leave the profession but can't.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9698636/[/quote]

That paper is from 1998, and interviewed 130 prositutes (likely those on the streets only) in one city (San Francisco). Not a representative sample both of the industry in SF, but also for the US overall.

Not only that, but the data is hardly relevant to today. Back then, the internet was not widely used; the first iPhone was 10 years away from being introduced, etc.

The sex work industry is drastically different now, in particular because of the internet and ability to find clients online and to offer services remotely.

Here's a study from this year, in Barcelona. Sample size about 75:
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-women-sex-survival.html

In that one, it shows 30% of the sample were victims of "trafficking or exploited" but the issue is the majority of their sample were undocumented immigrants so they came to Spain to work illegally, and probably didnt' have many other work options without papers. I'd say that's not really representative of the sex work industry in the US.[/quote]

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