PornHub: Alleged Sex Trafficking and Rape Videos

[nanashi]

The trade-off is that the working conditions of legal prostitutes is better where sex work is legal. It's not just about criminal prosecution.

That conclusion was based on societies where sex workers are CHARGED WITH A CRIME AND SOCIALLY OSTRACIZED. In Sweden, with what's known as the Nordic Model, sex workers are considered persons exploited based on their financial vulnerability and usually their biological sex, afaik, and are NOT charged with any crime. AFAIK, they are also connected with social services to support them.

[mu4]

That conclusion was based on societies where sex workers are CHARGED WITH A CRIME AND SOCIALLY OSTRACIZED. In Sweden, with what's known as the Nordic Model, sex workers are considered persons exploited based on their financial vulnerability and usually their biological sex, afaik, and are NOT charged with any crime. AFAIK, they are also connected with social services to support them.

The only way to deal with it is to criminalize the buying of sex and decriminalize the selling of it. Even if there are people who are willing to sell sex, the demand for it is always greater than the supply, thus sex trafficking. So the nordic model is pretty much the only solution that works currently.

[xerx]

That conclusion was based on societies where sex workers are CHARGED WITH A CRIME AND SOCIALLY OSTRACIZED. In Sweden, with what's known as the Nordic Model, sex workers are considered persons exploited based on their financial vulnerability and usually their biological sex, afaik, and are NOT charged with any crime. AFAIK, they are also connected with social services to support them.

I could be wrong; but, from reading the author's comments, I got the impression that "better working conditions" means a professional, properly regulated environment. I was picturing a clean, well-lit brothel with security guards at the entrance and mandatory customer id'ing. That's a less disadvantageous arrangement than visiting the purchaser's seedy apartment alone.

[nanashi]

I could be wrong; but, from reading the author's comments, I got the impression that "better working conditions" means a professional, properly regulated environment. I was picturing a clean, well-lit brothel with security guards at the entrance and mandatory customer id'ing. That's a less disadvantageous arrangement than visiting the purchaser's seedy apartment alone.

it's an economics problem. but the description you're talking about is only ONE model that improperly fits the problem and isn't a solution. There are other options (hence my bringing up the Nordic model)