Reply #36: and hee hee

[iverglas]

http://prostitution.procon.org/viewanswers.asp?questionID=000243

Does legal prostitution lead to human trafficking and slavery?

PRO (yes)
The U.S. Department of State, in its June 2007 issue of the "Trafficking in Humans Report," stated:

CON (no)
The Bureau of the Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings, in its Mar. 2005 report "Trafficking in Human Beings - Third Report of the Dutch National Rapporteur," stated:

Oops. The Netherlands seems to have changed its mind.


Not everyone in Australia is as sanguine about legal prostitution as you are.

http://www.amazon.com/Making-Sex-Work-Experiment-Prostitution/dp/1876756608
"Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment with Legalised Prostitution"

"One victim of trafficking is one too many: counting the human cost of trafficking: cases of trafficking in Australia documented in Feb / March 2004."
Zhou, Hui; Woods, Shirley; Costello, Georgina; Maltzahn, Kathleen.
Collingwood, Vic: Project Respect, 2004, 48p, tables
The details of approximately 300 cases of sex trafficking victims are presented in tabulated form in this report. The research into these cases was carried out over a six week period, from 1 February to 13 March 2004. The report is prefaced by a description of the research process, the trends that emerged from an analysis of the data, and a set of recommendations. The researchers note the difficulties in identifying and accessing information about victims of trafficking, and suggest that the numbers given in the report represent less than one third of the real annual number of women trafficked to Australia for prostitution.


Lots more here:
http://www.aifs.gov.au/acssa/research/trafficsexwork.html
(with many dead links, unfortunately)