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In reply to the discussion: Sweden's Prostitution Solution: Why Hasn't Anyone Tried This Before? [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)My argument is not everyone who travels to another country to work as a sex worker is doing it against their will. There are a great deal who do it as their "least bad" option.
The same reason you can find undocumented workers hanging out outside home improvement stores, looking for work. They would far prefer a nice job back home, but that isn't an option.
The best solution is to give them a better job back home, but we don't have the power to do that. We can't fix another country from the outside, and invasion is "problematic" (to massively understate the issue).
So we're left with damage reduction strategies. Legalization with regulation would cause less damage than keeping either side of the transaction illegal. Decriminalizing selling while keeping buying criminal doesn't improve on the current situation, because "the business" remains underground where it can not be regulated or monitored.
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