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I don’t see how that statistic about legalizing prostitution could possibly be true. LEGALIZING it causes an exponential 70% increase in trafficking? I’ve been on the side of logic that it actually SHOULD be legalized and regulated. If two people wanna exchange $200 and jump each other that’s not my business, but now I’m kinda backtracking on that if this data is accurate
Because that is NOT how prostitution works in practice. Ever heard of a pimp?
Legal or otherwise it incentivizes organised crime, and the women end up either literal or practical slaves. A "legal" prostitution ring is also the best possible cover for trafficking underage and eventually children.
It would need to be regulated the hell out of, and the regulators would need to, in turn, also be regulated because of bribery or oversight concerns.
A bureaucrat's wet dream, when it comes to prostitutes, really. Three to four layers of red tape and forms behind every interaction.
That's a shitty argument that can be used for anything:
"Allowing people to own cars leads to theft rings, carjacking, chop shops, and organized crime."
"Allowing people to carry cash leads to organized rings of pick pockets."
Everything where money or property is exchanged creates a profit motive for crimes.
There are jurisdictions where they've legalized prostitution but pimping is still a crime. On paper, that leaves more resources to go after the organized, criminal part. And the victims can report it without fear of charges of their own.
Only one form of legalisation has been proven to increase the amount of child trafficking. But if factual data is a shitty argument to you, you do you.
Bring back the word exponential actually having a meaning.
x^0.1 is technically an exponential increase...
Technically, yes, but you could define literally every increase as exponential if you view it that way, hence the term losing its meaning. In popular vernacular it used to mean a ten-fold or more increase.
See now, if you use exponential the other way it's a way of saying the increase is consistent with even higher values of x.
So they're just saying that if you were to make prostitution double plus legal trafficking would actually go up 189%
Well no, it'd be an exponential decrease in that case. But I get what you're going for.
And yes, you’re retarded because legalizing it will industrialize it to scale and then enshrine it politically as an unalienable right.
This has happened to every other Vice that has been legalized.
Iirc, holland has legalised prostitution but still has lots of trafficked humans
While I can't say it is true, I can see how it could be true: it's easier to hide illegal prostitution in a pile of legal prostitution than it is on its own.