Title: I Asked 3 Women to Talk About Sex Work & Trafficking in the U.S. | HuffPost
Headings: I Asked 3 Women to Talk About Sex Work & Trafficking in the U.S.
I Asked 3 Women to Talk About Sex Work & Trafficking in the U.S.
What’s the difference between sex work and sex trafficking?
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Mistress Matisse
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Should sex work be decriminalized or legalized?
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“Seeing this, an odd political coalition sprung up between some unlikely bedfellows who wanted to prevent sex workers from gaining social acceptance: Right-wing religious conservatives and leftwing anti-sexwork feminists. ‘ Sex trafficking’ was the phrase they hit upon to incite a public moral panic.” Mistress Matisse
“There was not then, nor is there now, a hugely widespread problem in the US of people being forced to have sex for money,” she continues. “ The terrifying numbers and statistics quoted by anti-traffickers have been debunked over and over. ‘ Sex trafficking’ is the boogeyman of our day, just as ritual Satanic child abuse was in the 80’s and 90’s. So saying “I’m an anti-sex trafficker” simply means “I’m anti-sexwork.” “Nonetheless, the myth of “sex trafficking” is a very useful idea. Non-government organizations (NGOs) who claim to be fighting it—we call them “the Rescue Industry”—get lots of money from government grants and private donations.