Prohibitionist fanatics are fond of telling us that the “vast majority” of whores are “trafficked sex slaves”, passive and “voiceless” vegetable-like entities who are reduced to this state by the magical potions and mind-control powers of evil “pimps” and then posed like sex dolls for uncaring “johns” to use. They even bizarrely reverse the actual statistic, claiming that “98%” of us are these pathetic creatures, despite the enormous evidence to the contrary. But let’s forget about studies for a few minutes; let’s ignore the fact that no normal man would want to have sex with a cowering, bruised, malnourished, dirty lump of flesh, and that any real sex worker can tell you how much time, effort and money we need to expend so as to look as pretty, happy, healthy and enthusiastic as possible. Let’s ignore the fact that for prohibitionist claims to work, literally every single man in the US would have to be fucking a “trafficked child” every single week of his life. Let’s forget about the literally hundreds of requests I’ve gotten from men asking how they can avoid “pimped” escorts, the thousands of requests for reassurance every young-looking sex worker has to field before she matures to a point where she’s assumed to have agency, and the inescapable fact that very young sex workers often lie up about their ages in order to minimize this chronic annoyance. Let’s even ignore the fact that highly-publicized pogroms sold to the public as “sex trafficking investigations” virtually never turn up anyone coerced, and even when they do the number is tiny and the cases look essentially nothing like the propaganda. I just have one question for the prohibitionists:
Where are they?
Where are all of these “trafficked sex slaves”? And where are the “pimps”? Show me some of them, please.
See, I can show you thousands of Twitter accounts, blogs and essays from sex workers; I can provide photos of absolutely enormous crowds of sex workers protesting against criminalization of our work, especially in the countries prohibitionists claim to be “hotbeds” of “sex trafficking”. I even know ladies who’ve worked under really shitty conditions, exploited and coerced by husbands or boyfriends…and they all support decriminalization. But all the prohibitionists can produce are a handful of show ponies like Rachel Moran and Theresa Flores, whom they parade around endlessly to recite their lurid tales of rape and beatings in front of crowds of gawking yahoos who then go home to masturbate. Almost none of these so-called “survivors” can produce an arrest record, the name of a “pimp”, an old ad under which they were supposedly “sold for sex”, or any corroborating evidence whatsoever; what’s more, their tragedy porn always takes place conveniently years or decades in the past, long enough for the evidentiary trail to have been washed away by their bucketfuls of crocodile tears. And you know why? Because these supposedly “trafficked” hordes are nothing but the products of fevered religious imaginations, phantasms that not only never existed but never could exist because they break every known law and fact of physics, biology, psychology, sexuality, sociology, statistics, history and common sense. They are nothing but angels dancing on the head of a pin, nonexistent entities whose existence is propounded by evil and sociopathic “leaders” as an excuse for tyranny and a distraction from their complete inability to actually solve even the simplest problems of the real world the rest of us are forced to inhabit.
“…angels dancing on the head of a pin…”
I love the analogy XD
Oh, don’t hold back how you really feel, Maggie.
Damn. Im going to make this into my laptop wall paper. Truer words were never said.
Sadly, this wasting of resources on the stupid witch-hunt causes another terrible problem. The few egregious cases of actual cruelty and exploitation are not investigated, discovered or completely resolved. This is common with all public and political outcries for more enforcement. The real victims are used as a justification for an infrastructure to be put into place which feeds the system of graft, cushy jobs, overtime and, the worst, risk-free work for those that are actually compensated well to take actual risks. Any executive function (as defined as the executive branch of government) will always go for the low-hanging fruit. This is a business decision and a logical one at that. There is little to no danger arresting and prosecuting defenseless females. When was the last time the vice squad had to face a prostitute brandishing a firearm? In the very few, but real, instances of organized crime white slavery it is obvious that LE will be dealing with shadow players, muscle men, graft and bribe arrangements frustrating their efforts, off-job threats and immediate violent resistance during raids, arrests and undercover work if for no other reason to send a message. See the history of organized crime for a brief primer on this.
There is actually a reason that you seldom see major busts of high-end services and independent providers. Their customer records contain enough data to ruin major players in the political world. Once the providers figure out that all they have to do is pool their data and create a mutual defense network, it is over for enforcement. You attack my independent sister and I offer to dump my data that is duplicated in other sister’s hands. This need only be done for the influential customers lists and the message can be communicated with so much subtlety. This threat had been delivered before when major services were busted, but no one has thought of networking the whole thing or at least talking about it publicly if not already in motion.
Yep, and they continue to redefine human trafficking from sweatshop labor in the 90’s and early 2000 to sex trafficking in like 2005 to cyberbullying (Anita Sarkeesian) in 2016 to now, illegal immigration under Trump. But the question still remains: Where are they?
One of the problems with “satanic ritual abuse”, with unbelievably vast numbers of little children being sacrificed to him who walks backwards, was the rather embarrassing question: “So where are all the bodies?” Bluntly: why weren’t the landfill sites positively choked with body parts of human-sacrificed babies?
If thousands of fresh young women enter sex slavery every year … how do they exit the industry? I mean – then don’t vanish into thin air, right? Do they go on to become minimum wage cashiers? If so, why aren’t there huge numbers of them speaking out on this issue (even if only 1% spoke up, there’d be thousands). Do they all die or get murdered? Ok – so, where are the bodies?
Hey, maybe I’m on the wrong track. I don’t actually have numbers here. Maybe one could plausibly come up with enough corpses to account for the necessary death toll from the sex trafficking. But I’ll bet it’s yet another statistical absurdity.
Not that one is needed.
Missed this one originally, but you’re absolutely correct. John Jay School of Law says that only 8% of prostitutes have pimps, and most of these are at the streetwalker end of the spectrum. The best way to stop pimps exploiting prostitutes is to decriminalize prostitution, and put complaints by prostitutes against LEO’s under IAB, overseen closely by DA and Feds.