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Re:Backpage Raided, CEO Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges by empthought on Friday October 07, 2016 @09:41AM (#12660576)
> Selling sex doesn't imply the loss of anything.

Literally thousands upon thousands of current and former prostitutes disagree.

Re:Backpage Raided, CEO Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges by vertex-four on Friday October 07, 2016 @09:52AM (#12660637)
And literally thousands and thousands of current and former sex workers agree. They have conferences, and industry groups, they lobby Governments, they have systems by which they can ensure the safety of themselves and each other and pick out their own clients. This isn't the situation of somebody who was trafficked half-way across the world and forced into sex slavery.

The solution is not to make sex work illegal, or to make seeking it illegal. It's to help the people who don't want to be performing sex work. It's to give them food, and shelter, and training to re-enter the job market. But that's expensive, and it's difficult to explain to people with Christian moralities about sex why you'd allow people to perform sex work if they wanted to.