Is it fair to associate "Johns" as "human/sex traffickers"?

[Squinch]

44. That IS the solution, but our culture simply will not allow men to be blamed for victimizing women.

Historically, this has always been true.

In these discussions, someone ALWAYS brings up Prohibition and its failure to eradicate drinking as a reason we should not prohibit the sale of women.

I find that interesting because Prohibition was really not an effort to eradicate drinking. It was an effort to reduce domestic abuse in a time when men were legally allowed to do anything to their wives short of murder. "A man's home was his castle" was and is a bedrock tenet of the legal system, and no one was allowed to breach that castle. As we all know, alcohol is often an element in domestic abuse, and the women who fought against "Demon liquor" very often linked it to the "degradation of the family" and other code words for a wife- and child-beating or abusing head of the household.

Yes, Prohibition was ridiculous, but in a society where women had no legal recourse against dangers in their own homes, where the society adamantly refused to put the responsibility for domestic abuse on the domestic abusers, it was the best they could do.