your arguments are all right in many single cases.

But here we would like to collect and document evidence in broader numbers in relation to the huge numbers of sex workers and paysex consumers in every country.

One argument can flip, like an emotion or situation can dramatically change within minutes or years, wether you are dependant or not, with money or not, with paper or not, healty or not, with that person or not… Humans can always choose between serveral options.

When you acknowledge free choice for some-to-many sex workers, you can do good to them more and help the endangered ones at most.

Don’t you see that the stigmatization and hence criminalisation has a major attribution to the missery of women, transexuals and men in sex biz? That entrapment is fostered by douple standards and taboo?

Howe comes that you generalize some feelings or experiences about sexuality and gender to all these many peoples in the sex industry?

Best,
Marc

Read Sarah Forsyth’s ‘Slave Girl’ and you will understand.

I’m reading another book: “Een haar per dag – dertig maanden in de prostitutie” written by Jody Peters. She was forced to work in the Netherlands in prostitution during the eighties, in clubs and behind windows. In the book she explains that she always tells clients that she works in prostitution to save a lot of money and then after a couple of years she could live off the interest. According to her that’s what nearly all girls tell to clients. And according to her nearly all girls are pimped in the window area where she worked.

These reports are worthless. It is a lot more complicated than that. Especially when the women are so attached to their pimps. After a rescue they will return to them. Call it love or fear. Coerced/forced prostitution is indeed difficult to eradicate. Perhaps we should treat it like any other crime. You must try as a government to stop it, but still be so realistic that it will never disappear. We shouldn’t give up the fight and give in to the sex traffickers by just calling them legitimate business people.

Sorry for my bombardment again, I’m still struggling with my sex addiction.