The former detective and three parlor managers allegedly exploited their employees, […]
This is the only sentence with any real meaning in the entire article.
Sex work is work, and if there is no victim then there is no crime.
But this single half-sentence claims that the employees were victims, without elaborating further.
So props if the cops actually helped someone, but if they’re just arresting people for prostitution then there are better uses of tax dollars.
To your point the line between sex trafficking and prostitution needs to be more clear, but I think that’s difficult when sex work is illegal.
The only reason I can think that politicians wouldn’t want the taxes from sex workers is because they themselves would be the primary funders.
Legalize and regulate sex work the same as any other industry. Every state will have a designated area where it is found and people who don’t want to be around it will avoid it. Free STDs testing, heavily taxed brothels, license to operate, fair wages, age verification, mandatory insurance for workers comp, active registry list of known violent offenders, mandatory reporting by managers of workers being assaulted.
I have never used the services of a sex worker and I have zero interest in ever doing so. That doesn’t change how I think the policy should be drafted.
Mugshot of the perpetrator.
Mass Age
I wonder if it was difficult going through life with the name “Peter Griffin.”
Fuck our puritanical laws. Sex work is work.
He ran those parlors for 9 years and only gets 3 yrs in jail?
Wtf?
I know, it’s not like there’s proof anybody was actually hurt
