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You can’t read about the sex trade without reading about the scourge of human trafficking.
Above all other criticisms of prostitution, this is the big one. Nothing makes people panic more than the idea that their daughter or sister or wife could be whisked away by masked foreigners and forced to fuck strangers for money in another country.
The uptight can claim it leads to other crimes and disease and all that shit that maybe the stats don’t back up fully, but damn, human trafficking is rough. If it was real, anyway.
Turns out the Guardian paper in the UK just blew the lid off of the human trafficking bullshit powder keg they’d been sitting on for quite a while over there. Here's the opening:
here is something familiar about the tide of misinformation which has swept through the subject of sex trafficking in the UK: it flows through exactly the same channels as the now notorious torrent about Saddam Hussein's weapons.
In the story of UK sex trafficking, the conclusions of academics who study the sex trade have been subjected to the same treatment as the restrained reports of intelligence analysts who studied Iraqi weapons – stripped of caution, stretched to their most alarming possible meaning and tossed into the public domain.
There, they have been picked up by the media who have stretched them even further in stories which have then been treated as reliable sources by politicians, who in turn provided quotes for more misleading stories.
In both cases, the cycle has been driven by political opportunists and interest groups in pursuit of an agenda.
In the case of sex trafficking, the role of the neo-conservatives and Iraqi exiles has been played by an unlikely union of evangelical Christians with feminist campaigners, who pursued the trafficking tale to secure their greater goal, not of regime change, but of legal change to abolish all prostitution.
The sex trafficking story is a model of misinformation. It began to take shape in the mid 1990s, when the collapse of economies in the old Warsaw Pact countries saw the working flats of London flooded with young women from eastern Europe. Soon, there were rumours and media reports that attached a new word to these women. They had been "trafficked".