Right, so its bad if the women involved are 'visibly bruised teenagers', whereas a seemingly cheerful & healthy migrant in her 20's whose family has been threatened and is forced to give up 90% of her income if she ever wants to see her passport again is OK?
I'd have thought you'd been arguing about stuff on the internet for long enough not to use such a cheesy old line as "Oh, so you think [X] is OK, do you?" (to which the answer is, invariably, "No of course I bloody don't").
As I said, I wasn't there, so I don't know. That doesn't automatically mean it was very worst possible scenario you can imagine.
Has anyone given any thought to the suggestion I made a couple of posts ago about tackling the trafficking problem by restricting prostitution to people who are either native citizens or immigrants who've been domiciled here for some period of years? I don't know if
Isnt a main pillar of the argument for decriminalisation that exploitation and abuse is much more likely under the current conditions?
I'm not sure I get you - prostitution is
already decriminalized in the UK, in fact it's fully
legal. The VICE link I posted above quotes prostitutes who are arguing against the
introduction of a Scandinavian-style law that would criminalize prostitute's customers.
What remains illegal is pimping (a good thing in itself, although I can only assume the enforcement of this law is woefully inadequate) and other activities such as 'running a brothel' (i.e. two or more prostitutes working in the same premises), which I think is probably counterproductive.