A Human Rights Violation

I have written many times about how the public has been so brainwashed into thinking prostitution is a "victimless crime," and attempts to try and legitimize a human rights violation by calling it "sex work" and other euphemisms, that it almost seems to be an uphill battle to persuade people that this is NOT a "victimless" crime.

It isn't about two "consenting adults," either, especially given the fact that the average age of women first going into this "life" is 13. and women usually have a very hard time getting out of it. Legalizing it, as I have written, makes the problem of illegal sex trafficking worse. From this very good article:

That, in fact, is exactly the theory behind the Sex Purchase Law in Sweden. As of 1999, johns are punished by up to six months’ imprisonment, traffickers are locked up for 2-to-10-year hits, and prostitutes are offered medical care, education, and housing. As a result, prostitution has been reduced by 50 percent in Sweden, and the purchase of sex, which is understood to be a human-rights abuse, has decreased by 75 percent. In contrast, Europol studies show, nations such as Holland and Australia, where prostitution has been legalized, have become lucrative, low-risk magnets for international sex-slave drivers and organized crime. On the subject of Sweden’s demand-side laws—which Finland and Norway have now adopted, and Denmark is currently considering—Sweden’s minister for justice, Beatrice Ask, notes, “If we could get rid of slavery, then I think this type of buying human beings is something that we have to fight too.”

Exactly. The "Happy Hooker" idea is simply bullshit.