r/dankmemes • u/Left-Twix420 ☣️ • Mar 01 '23

I am probably an intellectual or something With regulations I don’t see the issue

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u/Milkshake__Mayhem Blue Mar 01 '23

Studies have shown that it actually increases human trafficking

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u/Whatsapokemon Mar 01 '23

This is true. Sweden is a good case study for this, as they made prostitution illegal in 1999, and they saw a decrease in human trafficking in the following years. This can be compared to Denmark and Germany, which have more permissive laws around prostitution, which didn't see similar declines.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

Legal markets lead to black markets. Same thing with guns, the most illegal guns are in the same country with the most legal guns.

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u/Seductive_pickle Mar 01 '23

Except guns are a physical product that can be bought legally and resold illegally which is extremely different than sex work.

A big criticism of the case study linking legal prostitution to sex trafficking is determining if there was an increase in sex trafficking OR if it was easier to location sex traffickers.

If you legalize markets all the sudden you take a preexisting black market and link it to a legal market. Before when police had no idea where to look, now they know where to look, AND have rights to inspect properties for illegal activity.