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pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

eSports Chaebol posted:

Wait so should we try to help victims and minimize harm to sex workers, or blame them and call them whores? I'm skeptical that a writer comparing a real problem like sex trafficking to a fake non-existent problem like snuff films really cares about harm reduction more than moralism. Yes, we should address immigration restrictions used as a means of coercion, primarily through liberalization and amnesty rather than restriction, but we also should criminally pursue traffickers and pimps even if we legalize or decriminalize sex work. We should also tell bible thumpers and people like the writer in the OP to gently caress off.

I don't even think one can ideologically say a particular legal model is best because this is a pragmatic problem that requires a situational approach to attain the beat outcomes for sex workers and other migrants facing coercion. Of course in reality few people care about them because they aren't a constituency, and they are additionally otherized, dehumanized, and condemned.

The US is pretty bad about just punishing all parties involved with prostitution rather then trying to get the women/girls out of the life, but when you get runaway teens who get drawn into the life from a pimp they love there's no chance they're going to testify against him when they get arrested.

There's a great documentary called Very Young Girls that covers one woman's organization and attempts to bring these girls out of the life, including housing them to help them get their lives together, and while the cameras were rolling several of the girls would use their cellphones to call up their old pimps and try to meet back up and talk about how much they missed them.

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