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by JxLS-cpgbe0 1916 days ago
> Sex trafficing [sic] is not a real thing

Human trafficking (for non-sexual exploitation), sex trafficking, and non-coerced criminalized sex work have differences; but they all are very real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palermo_protocols

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Trafficking_and_Vio...

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My information on the topic comes from actual sex workers or women who know them (eg aminadujean, Naomi Wu) whose experience is that anti-trafficing is usually used to try to criminalize their work for their own protection.
> anti-trafficing [sic] is usually used to try to criminalize their work

I understand you have anecdotes from 2 women which describe non-coerced criminalized sex work, which is not sex trafficking.

My information comes from decades of global, publicly available and verified data. Sex trafficking is a real thing, and you delegitimize its victims when you say otherwise.

https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/136020.pd...

(you really don't have to put the emphasis on how much you dislike their spelling of trafficking, everyone can see it's a direct quote and it distracts from the rest of your post)
The spelling's wrong, not disliked. To your point--it's poor form to mark the same mistake twice.