No doubt trafficking is a big problem in many places - there just isn't any evidence that the US is one of them.
If there mere fact that there exists sex workers who are in the trade not out of their own free will is sufficient to outlaw the trade entirely, there are quite a few trades that would need to be outlawed.
That phrasing usually refers to trafficking. Let's do some numbers.
In 2000-07, there were 1,500 identified victims of trafficking in the USA - total, not a year, and including both sex and labor trafficking.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09...
Arrests alone for sex work is on the order of 100,000 a year (confirmed). An estimate puts the number of prostitutes at 1-2 million.
http://prostitution.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=0...
No doubt trafficking is a big problem in many places - there just isn't any evidence that the US is one of them.
If there mere fact that there exists sex workers who are in the trade not out of their own free will is sufficient to outlaw the trade entirely, there are quite a few trades that would need to be outlawed.