[thaumasiotes]

> But they refused to do the same for consensual sex work and that is why the feds eventually came down on them like a ton of bricks, all while telling the media and politicians that it was for sex trafficking.

Sex trafficking is defined as sex work. There isn't a legal difference. That's why they're saying it.

[WarOnPrivacy]

> Sex trafficking is defined as sex work. There isn't a legal difference.

Sex trafficking is addressed in 18 U.S. Code §1591, where a sex trafficker is "a person who recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides, obtains or maintains a minor for a commercial sex act"

This is pretty distinct from prostitution, a service which is legal in Nevada (where federal laws apply).

[dragonwriter]

> Sex trafficking is defined as sex work.

There are a number of definitions in different legal codes, but I’d be surprised if this was accurate in any of them (its not, as another reply notes, in US federal law): sex traffickers and sex workers aren't, even approximately, the same thing.