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Re:Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prosti... by baddox on Friday July 18, 2014 @04:44PM (#8055531)
> legalizing prostitution would have a hugely detrimental effect on the fight against human trafficking and the status of women in general.

Why? There's no need to traffic humans for prostitution if prostitution is legal.

> The idea that women's bodies can be commodified and sold to men is the foundation of patriarchy

What about the idea that men can pass laws forbidding women to do certain things with their own bodies? If a woman can choose to have an abortion, why can't she choose to have sex for money?

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Re:Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prosti... by dragonwriter on Friday July 18, 2014 @05:00PM (#8055603)
> Why? There's no need to traffic humans for prostitution if prostitution is legal.

There'd almost certainly be reduced demand to traffic humans for prostitution if it was legal but trafficking humans was not, compared to the situation where both are illegal, but that's not the same as no demand.

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Re:Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prosti... by IanCal on Friday July 18, 2014 @04:56PM (#8055583)
> Why? There's no need to traffic humans for prostitution if prostitution is legal.

By this logic, there should be nobody brought to a country to do a job legal in that country. Are you happy making that equivalent claim, or changing your view given a counter example?

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Re:Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prosti... by baddox on Friday July 18, 2014 @05:18PM (#8055688)
> By this logic, there should be nobody brought to a country to do a job legal in that country.

Isn't that the case? Presumably humans that are trafficked for forced labor are paid below minimum wage and exposed to bad working conditions that are illegal.

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Re:Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prosti... by IanCal on Sunday July 20, 2014 @12:11PM (#8060658)
I'm not sure what you're arguing here. You said that there wouldn't be anyone trafficked for prostitution if it was legal, but humans are trafficked to work in fields like construction.
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