A good friend on Fb despatched me the next message. I’ve edited it to make fragments of sentences into sentences and to appropriate 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 believed you’d like to listen to it.
A number of years in the past a feminine coworker from Raleigh instructed us over lunch that she had nearly been kidnapped by intercourse traffickers at a Goal in Raleigh. Astonished, we requested what occurred. She mentioned 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 identified for our witty t-shirts. I recommended that he was simply making an attempt to begin 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. Once I obtained again to my desk I googled instances of intercourse trafficking in Raleigh Targets. She was proper: there have been not less than 4 or 5 excessive profile instances. However once I learn by way of over a dozen paragraphs, I finally 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} preventing non-existent trafficking, and the information media went together with it for the clicks. Due to this, not less than one girl in Raleigh was petrified of going to Goal for worry of being kidnapped. (italics added)
