re: #9 Cap’n Magic

Why is a lack of reference to the legal brothels relevant? They don’t make up a high percentage of the sex bought in the US. If your criticism is that this paper is of buyers under the conditions that sex is illegal? If so, I think it can easily be granted that this paper is about prostitution when it is illegal.

What you can criticize the group for is using this paper to advocate against the legality of prostitution, since the type of men who ‘buy sex’ might be different in an area with legal prostitution, and a lot of the arguments about the harm of prostitution would be less relevant.

Saying ‘they didn’t look at legal brothels’ doens’t mean the study is useless, it just means it doesn’t apply to areas with legal prostiutution. Maybe things are different there, maybe not.