There is nothing wrong with Porn & Prostitution

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155. Your assertion that the article says that the probability of inflow is 13% is wrong.

The study found that legalization increased trafficking, period. The increase of trafficking was experienced in countries with all kinds of governments, but there was 13% probability that it would be higher still in those countries governed by a democratic system as opposed to some other form of government. The 13% was the higher incidence of inflow into democratically governed countries. Further, the study found that the increase in trafficking was greatest in those countries which were the wealthiest. Which means that, as a wealthy democracy, increases in trafficking in the US would be significant.

You seem to think that the hardships faced by sex workers where prostitution is criminalized are commensurate with the hardships of trafficked children, women and men. They are not commensurate. Trafficking is a form of slavery. Criminalized prostitution is not.

We can either legalize or not legalize. That means we must choose one of these systems. So we must either choose a system like the one we have now, in which prostitution is illegal and prostitutes are sometimes arrested and are sometimes preyed on by pimps and middle men. Or we can choose to legalize, in which the prostitutes are still preyed on by pimps and middle men, but which system also leads to people being enslaved and used up in the worst ways imaginable.