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Re:Backpage Raided, CEO Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges by throwanem on Friday October 07, 2016 @06:38AM (#12659550)
Don't you? The past few years have seen a spate of "high-class call girl" memoirs. Unless you want to make the novel claim they're all fabricated, or try somehow to argue they are negligible, that would seem to suggest that your second claim here is not accurate.
Re:Backpage Raided, CEO Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges by empthought on Friday October 07, 2016 @07:30AM (#12659795)
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/19/my_lessons_in_prostitution_h...

"People who see prostitution as something which exists on a number of different, exclusive and distinct class-related levels are people who do not understand the interrelated nature of it, and some of the people ignorant of the shifting nature of prostitution are actually prostitutes and prostitutors themselves."

Re:Backpage Raided, CEO Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges by pkinsky on Friday October 07, 2016 @11:46AM (#12661545)
>some of the people ignorant of the shifting nature of prostitution are actually prostitutes and prostitutors themselves

Sounds awful paternalistic. Have you considered the possibility that people who make choices you disagree with have agency?

Re:Backpage Raided, CEO Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges by empthought on Friday October 07, 2016 @11:58AM (#12661642)
Absolutely, which is why I would like to hold people who choose to purchase sex accountable for their human rights violations. They have agency; they have the choice not to purchase sex and yet they do so anyway.
Re:Backpage Raided, CEO Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges by pkinsky on Saturday October 08, 2016 @07:28AM (#12666550)
If you're deliberately misinterpreting my post, we're done. If you're not, I see no point in engaging further with you.

Once again, if only for the peanut gallery: you are asserting that no sex workers have agency in the matter of their employment. Yes or no?

Re:Backpage Raided, CEO Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges by empthought on Saturday October 08, 2016 @07:58AM (#12666631)
I am saying that sex workers' agency is immaterial to whether or not their clients are committing human rights abuses.