> there are no sex slaves, underage girls in myredbook.
That does not appear to be accurate. Here are some news stories from 2009 to this year about arrests and convictions related to underage prostitution -- often with additional elements of slavery -- all linked to myredbook.com
There were many, many ads on myredbook posed by a person with no reviews, and the pictures in the ad were not the sex worker providing the service. It wouldn't be hard to sell someone on hooking up with a fictional 18 year old, then delivering a 17 year old who clearly isn't the person from the ad. Personally I avoided these ads, but only because I learned through trial and error that meeting sex workers with reviews was usually a better value.
users have always been alerted if there is any foul plays regarding how these workers are treayed and reported any foul plays(robbery, violence, theft, etc.)
i havent seen any ads exploiting them at all. most of times, workers are at least 5-6 years older if not 10+ years than advertisement.
You're dodging the question. You're equating pimping with violence, but that's not always the case. How do you know sex workers who use RedBook were not, for example, having to pay back bogus "debts" to their pimps for having to come into the country? You've already said in a previous post that some sex workers using RedBook were from overseas. I somehow doubt you were you asking them for their I-94s as proof they were in the country legally.
I can fully believe there are a number of sex workers who found RedBook truly useful, and provided an extra layer of safety and security. What I can't believe is that for a line of work that is inherently illegal there were not at least some people who had abusive relationships with people coercing or even forcing them into it. You seem to be suggesting not a single woman (or man!) who used RedBook was being exploited, even a small minority. I think you're being naive.
>What I can't believe is that for a line of work that is inherently illegal there were not at least some people who had abusive relationships with people coercing or even forcing them into it.
I also can't believe that for most lines of work that are entirely legal. That's a very high bar.
youre equating myredbook to prostitution in general. its hard question, since its the oldest profession. there will always be bad pimps, debts whatever. that is why in my opinion myredbook was so popular, because it acts as a great medigator suchas airbnb, uber etc.
the culture in myredbook is to treat them well and be alerted with foul plays at all times. myredbook is innovative in that sense, because it made a lot of people's lives both clients and provider easier and safer conducting business
users know whats best to protect themselves. youre naive to think if users can go for foul plays and manipulate these presumably exploited sex workers thru websites like redbook. users know there are pigs whos watching all the time ...
Can you prove that? Was RedBook, for example, asking for proof of identity and age from those offering their services? How do you know that, say, some of those from overseas were not having to pay back large "fees" to their pimps for being brought into the country?
Say I buy some cocaine from a man on the street. The guy I'm buying it from might be the nicest guy in the world, but that doesn't necessarily negate the fact that the process of getting the cocaine to him may have required some exploitation, slavery, and even murder.
My point is not to argue against sex work: on the contrary, I think it should be legalized. My point is you, as a Redbook user, are convinced "no foul plays" were going on, but how do you know that? Right now you have nothing to back up what you're saying apart from good faith.
Given that convictions of people for trafficking underage prostitutes through redbook have already occurred, the opposite of what is claimed in the grandparent post has already been proven in a court of law.
Well, unless he means "are not" in the strictly current sense, where the fact that the only thing on myredbook.com is the seizure notice proves, fairly conclusively, the claim made (which is, however, then a rather meaningless claim.)
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> My point is not to argue against sex work: on the contrary, I think it should be legalized. My point is you, as a Redbook user, are convinced "no foul plays" were going on, but how do you know that?
Indeed, I'd say that one of the clearest harms of the criminalization of prostitution is that it makes it much harder to protect against the grave abuses (like coercion and underage prostitution) because the kind of steps you'd need to take to weed them out are things that anyone involved in an already-illegal trade would refuse to cooperate with because it would increase their vulnerability even if they weren't involved in the grave abuses. Rather than being a tool to fight trafficking, the general criminalization of prostitution promotes trafficking.
