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Re:Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitu... by Manuel_D on Friday November 24, 2023 @09:22AM (#38404237)
No. If I don't pay my plumber after a job, it's theft (or breach of contract, or something along those lines).

If snatch someone off the street, drag them into my condo, and force them to fix my toilet at gunpoint this is kidnapping and forced labor - something I'm going to guess has a much bigger penalty than breach of contract.

Rape is analogous to the latter, not the former.

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Re:Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitu... by lucubratory on Friday November 24, 2023 @05:02PM (#38408874)
It's moderately funny, in an unpleasant way, that you had to invent a scenario that almost never happens to plumbers and does regularly happen to women in the sex trade as part of your argument that the sex trade isn't analogous to rape.
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Re:Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitu... by brohee on Friday November 24, 2023 @06:09PM (#38409379)
Almost never? Forced sex work is an important part but not the majority of forced labour.

https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/lang--en/ind...

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Re:Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitu... by lucubratory on Friday November 24, 2023 @06:43PM (#38409637)
I'm not denying the existence of forced labour, it's horrific. I'm saying plumbing is a very contrived example of it, compared to things like the sex trade, construction, or mining.
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