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Re:Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Un... by Lazare on Thursday December 19, 2019 @10:37AM (#21835760)
> Sex trafficking is not consenting adults

By the dictionary defintion, this is true.

If you look at what gets called "sex trafficking" in the media, by politicians, by police and prosecutors, and in some cases, by the legal system, this is not true. One common definition is anyone who travelled across state (or country) lines has been trafficked, which is a bit like saying anyone who moves to SF for a tech job is a victim of human slavery.

It's not uncommon for a crackdown on sex trafficking to not find a single victim of sex trafficking (or anything else), but still result in a lot of arrests (overwhelmingly of women) and self-congratulatory press releases. The mind boggles.

In any case, the fight against "sex trafficking" (aka, consensual sex between adults) absolutely harms many victims of actual real trafficking. And bluntly, people who haven't yet got the memo yet and think the phrase is still only being used against actual unethical behaviour are making this worse.

Re:Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Un... by anon9001 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @03:07PM (#21838709)
> which is a bit like saying anyone who moves to SF for a tech job is a victim of human slavery

too real :(

Re:Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Un... by Zak on Thursday December 19, 2019 @03:32PM (#21838938)
I don't like the term "trafficking" for this reason. We have better terms, and criminal charges available for people who force or pressure someone into sex work against their will, including slavery, rape, and coercion.