Letters to the Editor
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simple answer
Sean, the simple answer to your question is that there are never enough willing prostitutes, so to meet demand traffickers bring in more women. This is why legalization is not a simple answer, because women *don't* want to do it. There will never, ever be enough women going into the profession out of free will to satisfy the demand.
We can remember the scandal when an Amsterdam brothel owner advertised for native Dutch girls because he said he couldn't get any. He said his clients wanted intelligent, articulate girls who were sophisticated and educated, etc. etc. And Dutch women were like what, are you nuts? Well educated women don't become hookers. They have other options, you know. Prostitution is legal in Amsterdam, and trafficking still is needed to fill the demand. There are almost no native Dutch prostitutes in Amsterdam, as tourists have observed.
I've been there. All Asian girls in the windows. Trafficked? Often, yes.
The license, I would imagine, can be forged, the girl can be forced to get it; it's hard to know how well this really works.
Because of attitudes like Amerigo's--because prostitution is very normalized in people's minds--the police often feel like they have more pressing problems. It's a very big industry, too, worth billions. It's the second or third biggest industry for organized crime, after drug smuggling. It's hard for the police to tackle a problem this size.
Unlike drug smuggling, in which you may be able to alleviate the pressure through legalization, legalization has not worked for prostitution because, again, women won't enter prostitution if they don't have to. So trafficking booms. Native girls in a rich country go to school and get jobs and stay away from it, so a lot of prosperity means less fortunate women must be imported.
This is the root problem--women do not *like* to be prostitutes. There will be a very few but they will come nowhere near meeting the need so trafficking will continue, esp. for cheap prostitutes.
You would think that most women's unwillingness and desire not to become prostitutes would factor into the discussion somewhat, but apparently not. I guess we are all just terrible prudes holding dimes between our knees to weild power over the poor men. Being raped at age 13, abused by your boyfriends, pimped out, and strung out on drugs is what's needed to liberate the mind sufficiently; that'll loosen those bitches up!
I think I'm beginning to understand guys like Amerigo now.
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You seem to have some deep seated fear of femininity.
I do have a deep seated fear of having to make huge sacrifices for sex/relationships (including kissing the asses of women like you) when it is impossible for me to induce anything similiar in anyone else, (unless I were to go gay). This isn't fear really, it's just reality for most men given the vastly different sex/relationship drives of men and women and the fact that men have no special status in other areas of life anymore. For someone who claims to have scrutinized what I've said for evidence that I've admitted to sexcrime it is kind of funny that you treat a matter that I have talked about openly and repeatedly as some sort of secret that you have discovered due to your superior feminine insight.
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if you want to outlaw and enforce the laws against trafficing, rape, assault, child molestation you can
outlawing sex between consenting adults because tina disapproves of the manner and circumstances in which they are engaging in it is neither a necessary or appropriate mechanism for approaching the problem. Tina's whole argument is a lie anyway. If someone could demonstrate a total absence of the problems she describes she would still be opposed to legalized prostitution, as she had said. Given that she is lying about her real agenda it isn't much of a stretch to believe she is also lying about the evidence she is citing to support it.
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the total absence of all these "other crimes"
would spell the end of prostitution. So as far as that goes, I agree with you--let's get to work on that. No child abuse, pimping, trafficking, rape, assault--get rid of all that and there would be no prostitution left to speak of.
The elimination of the huge power/resource imbalances between men and women would also help to kill off prostitution. Cool! I can go with that program.
You guys would so quickly learn how many women want to become hookers. Remove ALL the coercive elements and, well--it would be Amsterdam, only without the third world trafficked girls. In other words, zip, nada.
You of course really don't want any of that, since you resent "having to kiss women's asses to get sex"--as you so charmingly put it.
No wonder you're considered such a catch, Dick, jeez 'o petes....
Have you considered that you might get somebody if you weren't so hateful?
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"men have no special status in other areas of life anymore"
so, you want sex to be "special"--meaning women shouldn't be allowed to make the decisions. Guys should be able to continue dictating the terms, since they have lost the ability to dictate terms on other fronts. This is your reasoning, it appears.
You know what? Tough. Too fucking late.
Get over it.
And no, you shouldn't be able to buy a woman either.
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Get off
Get off your high fucking horse, tina schrier. Between your faux -victim quotation of statistics from the most virulently anti-male sources, to your very obvious fear of heterosexuality, it's clear you hate men and heterosexual sex.
Fine. We understand. You. Hate. Men.
Enough. Get help, or quit channeling Andrea Dworkin.
We're tired of your bigotry.