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I met a 19 year old at Centerho's who needed a ride and wanted to make some money back in 1995, so this hits close to home.

New Texas law signed recently by Gov. Abbott to curb sex trafficking through raising the legal age for strip club patrons and workers to 21.

LOL. Trafficking was never that big of a problem. See the link: https://www.ajc.com/news/local/torpy...Zbl5Fg0gsW1vO/

In 2011, when in the Dallas area, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said, “The Super Bowl is one of the biggest human-trafficking events in the United States.”

Earlier, a police sergeant there predicted that 50,000 to 100,000 prostitutes might arrive, enough to fill a stadium.

After the game, The Dallas Morning News reported there were 59 prostitution arrests, and none were of minors.

n 2012 in Indianapolis, there were a reported 68 prostitution arrests, two that involved human trafficking.

In 2013, New Orleans had 85 prostitution-related arrests and two cases of trafficking, according to the Advocate.

In 2014 in New Jersey, where the game took place in East Rutherford, there were "45 people arrested and 16 juveniles rescued in a two-week crackdown,"

In 2015 in Phoenix, there were 71 prostitution arrests, and nine of the suspects were underaged.

In 2016 in Santa Clara, Calif., there were 42 prostitution arrests, with two girls under 18.

In 2017, Houston had 217 vice arrests over 10 days — 56 for prostitution (four were ID'd as trafficking victims), 11 pimps and 100-plus johns.

Last year in Minneapolis, police arrested 94 men and "made contact with 28 potential victims ages 17-49," presumably women in prostitution. Six told police they were trafficked.

Justice Department numbers show that 2,515 trafficking cases were investigated in a 30-month period starting January 2008. Seemingly, the feds have stepped up their game since. In 2012, there were 1,923 cases of human trafficking nationwide.

Granted, victims are often hard to find and often won’t cooperate. But the numbers seem underwhelming compared to the purported crisis. And it would seem if you want to solve a problem, you should be accurate in enumerating it.

End of quotes from that article.

Now look at this story about a girl being trafficked, then look at her picture: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...on/2658224002/

Look, it is tragic when real trafficking goes on, but that story makes it sound like the chick in the article above was a straight A student and a virgin. Real trafficking is when you are doing something against your will.

For the most part, trafficking is just an excuse for law enforcement to arrest and steal from johns. It turns prostitution from a victimless crime into ones where women are victims and quite frankly, I am sick of that.

Strippers and hos are now all victims. They all had full ride scholarships to Harvard until men corrupted them, the poor things. As you can see above, there are not that many women trafficked, and LE is tripping over itself to inflate the numbers. Originally Posted by woodyboyd

I've been posting this link for years whenever this topic comes up.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/is-op...king_b_8307634


I agree that when it happens it is a tragedy and those who exploit should have the book thrown at them but trafficking has now become anything to do with sex work.


Why? Follow the money. Do a google search for organizations set up to fight trafficking. Then delve a little deeper into their finances, income and outlay, the assets they own even. Many of these organizations are making big money on the words "sex trafficking". It's in their own best self interest to make it sound bigger and worse than what it is. Every time you see an article some spokesperson from one of those organizations is quoted. I bet they fall all over each other to get their quote, and their name, out there so they can get money rolling in. What you rarely ever read or hear about is how any of these organizations are really doing much of anything to help the real victims.


And yeah, it's not going to stop a damn thing. All it does is drive legitimate sex workers further into the shadows and makes it less safe for them to do the job they've chosen to do. This law is so bad it even makes it harder for adult non sex workers to get a job.

New Texas law signed recently by Gov. Abbott to curb sex trafficking through raising the legal age for strip club patrons and workers to 21. Originally Posted by BigBamboo

Patrons too? That I hadn't heard.

Patrons too? That I hadn't heard. Originally Posted by Mike Meatmaster

Yeah.. Have to do both, or the law could never pass a Court challenge.

We had an article written here, some 6 months ago. Dallas. A City Councilman did a ''ride along'' with a Cop, and described how he and the Cop drove through several blocks, where Pimps stood near trafficked, underage girls. The Councilman and Cop pointed out these girls, lamenting the ''trafficking'' problem. Neither did a God Damn thing, just drove off, ''knowing'' these girls were trafficked. absolute fraud, made up bullshit. I would have jumped out and rescued the girls, but fact is, they made up the shit, there was nobody to rescue in the first place.