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Re:Why are sex workers forced to wear a financial scarlet le... by Stupulous on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @09:41AM (#33007802)
I would think the moral calculus is different when the non-consensual activity is sex vs. eg. cutting timber or cooking fast food. A single rape is a lot more traumatizing then a decade of physical labor. I don't know anything about how common involuntary sex work is, so I won't argue a broader point; I just think the equivalency doesn't hold up.
Re:Why are sex workers forced to wear a financial scarlet le... by NoraCodes on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @09:45AM (#33007837)
Okay, but banning or further criminalizing sex work is not going to reduce human trafficking, but increase it, for the same reason that banning drugs doesn't reduce illegal drug sales. The demand is pretty inelastic. HRW has a decent primer on the topic here: https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/07/why-sex-work-should-be-d...