[myredbookutoo]

Throwaway for obvious reasons. I have been using myredbook and reading HN regurarly too.

I think outlawing prostitution is the stupidest thing ever. Coercion, battery, human trafficking -- these are all crimes themselves and these are what most people are concerned about. It's a waste of time and effort. Removing a site like this will achieve nothing except perhaps endanger some of the sex workers -- think about it. Clients (for there will be clients, no doubt -- does anyone think one advertisment site makes a difference?) can behave in worse ways cos the forums are gone.

[jqm]

"Coercion, battery, human trafficking -- .....these are what most people are concerned about."

Maybe this is what people __claim to be most concerned about. But I would venture to guess more often than not, the real concerns are based on moral prudery, religious dogma, and stogid ideas of what a family !must be.

[makomk]

Very much so. In particular, anti-trafficking groups are strongly opposed to any solution to trafficking that doesn't involve making life harder and more dangerous for sex workers and label anyone who actually listens to the workers "pimps", as though respecting those women was somehow equivalent to forcing them to have sex.