re: #1 Destro

You can’t change human nature.

Legalize prostitution, monitor it, over-sight it, tax it and take the pimps and minors out of the equation and sex trafficking ends (or is much reduced).

I agree that legalization, and getting pimps and minors out of the equation is not a bad idea, although the actual dynamics of how that first part would look always seems to get into the woods pretty quickly. And I’m not sure that legalization necessarily helps anyone except for those who are already not in trouble. Per UNHCR, the Netherlands, despite legalization and cooperation with trafficking laws, still has a big goddamn problem going on.

unhcr.org

However, fuck ‘human nature’. A human being is responsible for what he or she does, and I have no problem with sitting people who want to be consumers in the sex trade down and letting them know exactly what the hell they are paying for. It’s human nature to want to drive fast, too, it’s just that sometimes you kill people when you do it. As with this.