02-01-2019, 02:08 PM
(02-01-2019, 07:15 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: I feel the Nordic model could be a solution here. This model penalises men for buying sex, but doesn't punish prostitutes for selling themselves. Destroying demand for prostitution is the best way of destroying the sex slave trade.
This website describes this solution in detail:
http://www.stopdemand.org/
The problem is that the United States is not a Nordic country.
Men can be busted for having sex with minors -- and the penalties are severe. A conviction for underage sex can destroy a professional career. The trucking industry is in cooperation with anti-trafficking agencies. If I am the boss, and one of 'my' truck-drivers is busted for prostitution-related offense while driving one of my trucks -- that trucker will not be working for me. Teamsters' Union be damned on that -- it can find another trucker as a replacement. 'My' truckers would know the rule. Johns are already losing cars after being busted, so it is probably a short time before companies start losing eighteen-wheel trucks and their contents due to such judgments. Nobody gets away with putting my company's assets at risk due to some illegal deed. Owner-operator? Find someone else. You aren't going to put my load at risk of confiscation.
But that is about one demographic that has been infamously connected to the use of prostitutes. For good reason we have plenty of husband-and-wife teams.
Prostitutes obviously need help to find safer ways to make a living. Many need detox, relocation, vocational rehabilitation, and safe housing. They deserve our sympathy.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.