Title: I worked in the sex trade; does that make me 'trafficked'?
Headings: I worked in the sex trade; does that make me 'trafficked'?
I worked in the sex trade; does that make me 'trafficked'?
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Content: Media coverage equates all trafficking with sex trafficking, but most trafficked people are brought in for domestic labour, agriculture, and food processing. They end up in jobs British nationals don’t want, or are hired by employers who want to illegally pay under minimum wage. So why the panic about women being trafficked for sex? Chinese cocklers travelling up and down the country, crammed into transit vans and sleeping dozens to a room, are invisible to most of us. The well-worn cliché of a damaged woman whose purity is compromised, on the other hand, tugs at the heartstrings more keenly than the abuse of mere “economic migrants”. It is rarely pointed out that of the trafficking referrals made to police in the UK, one in four are men, and domestic and agricultural exploitation counts for six of every 10 cases. No one seems to care about those numbers. But once sex is involved, the attitude changes dramatically. In forced sex trafficking estimates, most numbers have been overcounted, rather than undercounted. The numbers of supposed sex slaves quoted by MacShane are so unrealistic that, if true, they would account for the vast majority of prostitution in Britain.