Re:The Uncertain Fate of Amsterdam’s Red-Light District
by dleslie on Thursday October 24, 2019 @11:54AM
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Human trafficking exists in many industries where employing local labour is the exception; it could be that the tolerance of sex work and its unlikelihood of hiring locally sourced labour makes it attractive to human trafficking.
Re:The Uncertain Fate of Amsterdam’s Red-Light District
by chimeracoder on Thursday October 24, 2019 @12:48PM
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> Places with legal sex work have higher rates of human trafficking
Places with legal sex work have higher reported rates of human trafficking. This is not a surprise; one of the biggest arguments consistently made in favor of decriminalizing sex work is that it will make it easier to catch human trafficking, and make it easier for trafficking victims to come forward without the risk of being charged for a crime.'
Even the article you quote, if you take the time to read it all the way, doesn't draw the conclusion that the higher reported rates of human trafficking mean that sex work should be criminalized.
> Criminalization of prostitution in Sweden resulted in the shrinking of the prostitution market and the decline of human trafficking inflows. Cross-country comparisons of Sweden with Denmark (where prostitution is decriminalized) and Germany (expanded legalization of prostitution) are consistent with the quantitative analysis, showing that trafficking inflows decreased with criminalization and increased with legalization.
https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-...