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As long as sex work is illegal, it will be easy for people to find ways to abuse sex workers.
Making sex work legal won't stop slavery - plenty of modern day slaves exists today in nail salons, fast food, cleaning, factory work and so on in every city in every Western country.
Making something illegal almost never outright stops it
It does make it significantly easier to regulate a market if it's legal than if it's not, so the EXTRA illegal shit goes down when markets are legalized
It can help, yes - but a large percentage of the 38 to 49 million modern day slaves still exist in otherwise fully legal businesses.
Awareness of slavery is still really low amongst many people. It's going on everywhere, not just in the sex business and is very difficult to stop.
Fun fact: the majority of people trafficked in the world are for sex purposes, so if you make it far easier to shut down that market, it damages all the other slave markets too
I get that you're trying to bring awareness or whatever but both comments so far read more like "not worth legalizing sex work when other slaves still exist"
What's the source for this, please?
My own research points to the fairly reputable https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/modern-slavery/ which estimated around 28m in modern slavery (on the low side of other estimates), and of those, 6.3m are in commercial sexual exploitation, less than a quarter.
I absolutely am trying to do that - it seems to be ignored by almost everyone, something that I personally find shocking. Even when raising the figures here - usually a place full of people with more empathy than most social media, the response has been partly negative. Maybe because people don't seem to want to acknowledge the bigger problem. I don't get it. Perhaps the numbers are so huge it's hard to appreciate that each one of these is a human being who's trapped, alone and suffering.
That wasn't the intention.
Prison slaves in the woods fighting a California wildfire. MERICA!
Way to add literally nothing to the conversation. This post wasn't an invitation to get on your sopbox.
Thank you for your own deeply considered and valuable contribution.
Literally lmao