[worik]

I live in a jurisdiction where sex work is decriminalised.

Trafficking does still occur. But it is a very small part of the scene.

The difference it has made to workers is huge. Once they were at risk from pimps, clients, and cops. Now if pimps or clients bother them they go to the cops, and the cops protect them. As they should.

As they do for shop keepers, plumbers, and computer programmers.

Make no mistake: Having a law against sex work encourages, and subsidises, trafficking.

[Vicinity9635]

>Make no mistake: Having a law against sex work encourages, and subsidises, trafficking.

Super dark take: Hey, it worked to make drugs more profitable, why not sex work?

I remember when it passed and pretty much every ordinary American was surprised and hadn't asked for it. It seemed to come out of nowhere with no news coverage that I was aware of and nobody was a fan.

[mkatx]

Black markets are dangerous and people are going to do it anyway. Albeit unintuitive, legalization and regulation is the way to go!

As an average American, decriminalized drugs and sex work for the win!

[s1artibartfast]

I tend to agree, but many people get so riled up on the topic that they forget that just because something is legal doesn't mean it's good and just because something is bad doesn't mean it should be illegal.

The legal system shouldn't be the single tool humans use to decide how to act. It should be a very High bar to prevent the most egregious and destructive Acts, not a tool for achieving optimal human behavior

[Brian_K_White]

No one ever denied that things happened. The difference was they actually worked against it.

The question to ask is, did the slavery stop without backpage?

Which means, (assuming the answer is no it didn't stop or even reduce at all) did the problem get better or worse by attacking backpage? Wherever the slaves are marketed now, is the owner working with police to discover and free them?