Reply #88: Actually, I'm the one bringing up England

[jeff47]

Because it doesn't fit into the "they're all trafficked!!!" mold. Since the UK spent years trying to rescue trafficked women and found <10 in the entire UK. Most of the women they interviewed didn't want to go back to their home country, because prostitution in the UK was less-bad than life in their poverty-stricken homeland.

And you're completely missing my point. You are infantilizing these women. Do you honestly believe that women can't possibly make adult decisions after they've been abused? If we can't trust them to make adult decisions about prostitution, then how can we trust them to sign contracts or any of the other things that separate adults from children?

Either they're adults and have all the rights and responsibilities of being an adult, or they're children. There is no "we have to save them from this bad decision because they were abused".

Or should we start making all sorts of special exceptions? "Her parents declared bankruptcy, so clearly she could never have learned to manage her finances from her parents. So we'll manage them for her."