[Elystan]

Originally Posted by JCC

You're still not understanding the split between middle-class escort-style sex work like Belle du Jour or whatever, which I'm assuming is what Miss Absynthe was involved with, and being a street prostitute with a pimp. She even said she's a call girl, as well as acknowledging the implicit privileges she has in terms of money, education, race, gender etc to expect a higher quality of living in her profession. It's different. In fact, did Miss Absynthe even say she has sex with her clients?

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Originally Posted by Elystan

So I'm sure we can agree that human trafficking is a form of slavery and to be condemned as such. But what about prostitution itself? Where the coercion factor is no greater than economic coercion to get a job?

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Originally Posted by Elystan

If you allow for the fact that it is a social illness when people are forced into prostitution, that says nothing about those who choose it.

Originally Posted by Elystan

I feel like I'm repeating myself here, but I think we can take is as a given that human trafficking and being forced to sell sex is an appalling thing?

Sex slavery is appalling because it's slavery not because it's sex.

There are probably more.