• MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com
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        1 year ago

        No but these absurd questions show up faster and faster as the government legitimizes sex work.

        And so do trafficked immigrants who are kidnapped and coerced into the sex work industry by people threatening to kill their family while using Facebook Live standing in front of that family’s home back in their country of birth.

        That shit has been happening for a decade. And it is why lots of the liberal western European countries have curtailed their red light districts.

        There is no way to save those people without destroying privacy.

        https://reddthat.com/post/8968028 - “European Parliament rejects mass scanning of private messages”

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          1 year ago

          Governments can legalize sex work but they can’t legitimize it, because governments don’t dictate societal attitudes. (Well, they sort of can through propaganda, but they shouldn’t. A democratic government should reflect the attitudes of its people, not the other way around.)

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          There is no way to save those people without destroying privacy.

          I disagree. Legalizing prostitution and fighting the social stigma would prevent many of those crimes.

          If you criminalize a service that will always be in demand, you won’t kill the market - you’ll just turn it into an unregulated black market run by criminals, who are much less inhibited than legal employers to use any means at their disposal (even threats and violence) to maximize their profit.

          The exact same thing happened during the prohibition.

          But if you have a legalized market… using threats and violence to force people to perform i.e. call center work is much less common.

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      1 year ago

      Probably not as that would be advertising sex work within an area frequented by minors. I bet it would fall under the same laws as consuming or selling pornography close to schools and parks.