A buddy on Fb despatched me the next message. I’ve edited it to make fragments of sentences into sentences and to right spelling errors.
It pertains to my publish a number of days in the past about authorities officers referring to voluntarily chosen prostitution as “trafficking.”
I noticed your EconLog publish on intercourse trafficking. I used to be going to publish this story as a remark however determined it was too lengthy. Nonetheless, I assumed you’d like to listen to it.
A number of years in the past a feminine coworker from Raleigh advised us over lunch that she had virtually been kidnapped by intercourse traffickers at a Goal in Raleigh. Astonished, we requested what occurred. She stated a person got here as much as her and made a remark about her t-shirt. That was it. She was younger and engaging and our firm was recognized for our witty t-shirts. I advised that he was simply attempting to start out a dialog. She insisted that she had seen tales about a number of intercourse trafficking arrests at that Goal. So, in her view, he will need to have been a kidnapper. After I obtained again to my desk I googled instances of intercourse trafficking in Raleigh Targets. She was proper: there have been a minimum of 4 or 5 excessive profile instances. However once I learn by way of over a dozen paragraphs, I ultimately came upon that they had been all merely common prostitution. There was no trafficking and there have been no kidnappers. The cops dressed it up as trafficking as a result of they obtained extra headlines and extra federal {dollars} combating non-existent trafficking, and the information media went together with it for the clicks. Due to this, a minimum of one girl in Raleigh was fearful of going to Goal for concern of being kidnapped. (italics added)
