Because too many idiots think every sex worker MUST be drugged, tortured, and forced into it. Heaven forbid they would actually want to be KNOWLEDGEABLE about things before over reacting.
I remember being out to dinner with one of the ladies who has become a very close friend. This was a professional date fairly early in our history, and since it was her birthday I wanted to take her someplace a little special--it was at one of the fanciest restaurants in DC and we were on our way to the Kennedy Center with concert tickets. The Matre' D stopped by at the end of the meal and pointed with his chin towards another couple across the room and essentially said, "I wish we had more clientele like you and your wife. Look at those two! I wish I didn't have to let them in here!"
The couple he was referring to was an ambassador and his daughter.
I really wish that DHS and a bunch of others would get their focus on the actual trafficked people--sex workers or otherwise--and pimps who use threats & violence to control ladies. Leave the truly mutually conceptual folks alone. No, we don't need saving from ourselves!
Originally Posted by Old-T
I don't think they really care except it gets such good headlines and they seem so heroic busting international sex traffickers. Otherwise, they are just another version of the vice squad, and subject to negative stereotypes.
Better to create a mountain out of a molehill, and something everyone can condemn and feel righteous about, and morally superior.