Its very hard to get trafficking convictions when people dont cooperate due to coercion. Even then these rings have expensive lawyers! Originally Posted by winn dixieWhich makes your claims of "SEX SLAVERY" behind every bush, even more hysterical.
Next time just post that...Reminder.
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87...l/HB01540F.HTM
Long story short, it changes the law to target hobbyists "solicitation", and therefore targets consensual sex work even more, leading to the type of harm these nonsensical laws lead to.
Pushing things further underground, making police actions harsher, and more difficult, and making life harder for sex workers...pushing them into residential or other more precarious situations.
Get ready for things to get WORSE for the women (and men) involved in sex work.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5529480/
"Waterbed politics" ...push it down on one side, pops up somewhere else.
Criminalization "barking up the wrong tree": Originally Posted by oldphone14
Structural risk factors for HIV infection include work environment, poverty, stigma, discrimination, and criminalization of sex work which increase the risk for HIV infection among sex workers by creating barriers to accessing HIV care and prevention services [5, 18, 21–25]. The settings where sex work occurs have a large impact on vulnerability by making it harder to negotiate condom use, find protection from violence, and have access to HIV prevention, treatment and sexual health services, including STI treatment, condoms and contraception [26]. For example, a study in Kenya found that street-based sex workers had a higher prevalence of HIV when compared to women working in fixed establishments [27]. In Miami, sex workers did not seek healthcare out of fear of discrimination and arrest [25]. Finally, there are important barriers associated with accessing prevention services as a result of the anti-prostitution laws in 49 of 50 states in the United States. Federal and local policies may discourage researchers and programs from providing services to this population [28].https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5114707/
The findings of systematic reviews have improved characterization of HIV burden in other parts of the world and in populations who are most at risk for HIV, including men who have sex with men, transgender women and female sex workers in international settings [3, 29, 30]. To date, however, no systematic reviews of the burden of HIV among female sex workers in the United States have been published and the burden of HIV among this population remains poorly understood. The purpose of this systematic review is to characterize the prevalence of, and risk factors for, HIV infection among female sex workers in the United States.
