Massachusetts Court Weighs Whether All Prostitution Is Sex Trafficking

https://reason.com/2025/01/13/massac...x-trafficking/

"So every John is a sex trafficker?" asked Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Scott L. Kafker in the courtroom last week.

"Yes, your honor," replied Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Julianne Campbell.

The case—Commonwealth v. Garafalo—represents the latest assault on civil liberties and basic language to be carried out in the name of stopping sex trafficking.

Victimizing 'A Fictitious Individual Created by Law Enforcement'

It's long been a goal of certain radical feminists to define all sex work as sex trafficking. If you completely remove agency and free will from the equation—at least for women—then anyone who accepts money for sexual activity can be a victim and anyone who makes or facilitates this payment a criminal.

This paradigm is the basis for the "Nordic Model" of regulating prostitution, in which paying for sex is illegal but the basic act of offering sex for money is not. The Nordic model is established in many European countries, was adopted last year in Maine, and is gaining ground in the U.S. (where it's sometimes, confusingly, called the Equality Model).
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