Genuine escorts or trfficed girls???

[UKHeather]

I don't mean as a sex worker Heather, but I have had a very varied life been in all the right places, sooner or later, to see evidence of trafficking and commercialised coercion if it was really there...(except in the same sense that serial murder is really there.)

It's a horrible sort of propaganda and never mind being used as an excuse to persecute sex workers, the real problems are being buried under all the mass hysteria.

Things are always sensationalised in the media. However, by very nature of the fact that most forced sex workers are going to be hidden away from everyone except clients, I'm not convinced that if forced sex workers are out there, you would have met them.

[Jack in the Box]

A very important issue was brought up in this thread. It is the case that there ARE sex workers forced, abused and bullied as well as there are ones that are not.

Clients need to make it their business to ensure that they are not supporting the intimidation or forcing of an escort. Some warning signs were described in this thread. If in doubt leave and report situations. If it helps confidential phones lines for example should be publicised.

Every human being is entitled not to be bullied, intimidated or raped. Also if clients don’t take this seriously they are playing into the hands of people who want them to fail.

Also as I’ve said before in threads other parties such as Escort Ireland need to have zero tolerance for any form of trafficking or exploitation and to listen to any feedback that sex workers are giving. It is the just and right thing to do and the low hanging fruit in the campaign against TOTRL. In that way all involved fairly in sex work can be a winner.

[UKHeather]

A very important issue was brought up in this thread. It is the case that there ARE sex workers forced, abused and bullied as well as there are ones that are not.

Clients need to make it their business to ensure that they are not supporting the intimidation or forcing of an escort. Some warning signs were described in this thread. If in doubt leave and report situations. If it helps confidential phones lines for example should be publicised.

Every human being is entitled not to be bullied, intimidated or raped. Also if clients don’t take this seriously they are playing into the hands of people who want them to fail.

Also as I’ve said before in threads other parties such as Escort Ireland need to have zero tolerance for any form of trafficking or exploitation and to listen to any feedback that sex workers are giving. It is the just and right thing to do and the low hanging fruit in the campaign against TOTRL. In that way all involved fairly in sex work can be a winner.

If more clients had done the right thing maybe they wouldn't be looking at criminalisation now.

[Rachel Divine]

From what I've read and seen on forums this is probably the most accurate statement I've read and as a man it disgusts me also.
They seem to put no effort into research other than pics and phone numbers.

What info on human trafficking would you get from phone numbers and pictures?

How accurate that info will be?

Lets say you get something valid ... what about the errors you will get as well?

[LaBelleThatcher]

Things are always sensationalised in the media. However, by very nature of the fact that most forced sex workers are going to be hidden away from everyone except clients, I'm not convinced that if forced sex workers are out there, you would have met them.

I am not convinced I would have met them myself, but I would have come across SOME hard evidence sooner or later...and I haven't...

But I have come across almost endless evidence of deliberate panicmongering with alterior motives.

Of course there are sex workers in situations where they need help to rescue themselves, but any I have ever seen were on very personal terms.

The "trafficking epidemic" is part mythical bogeyman (agenda for the pursuit of), and, partly, more sinisterly, a covert outlet for the growing xenophobia that is an inevitable by product of a period of reactionary ascendency and a global recession.

[UKHeather]

I do appreciate that you don't want to continue to discuss this for your health, but if that is the case, why provoke the debate?

Should everyone just live in fear and shut up then?

These ladies don't have a voice and THAT is why this dirty business flourishes.

[Rachel Divine]

Should everyone just live in fear and shut up then?

These ladies don't have a voice and THAT is why this dirty business flourishes.

Is it Alex forced to post or to stop doing it other than on her own will?!

Be the dont go and see foreign young escorts because they might be trafficked is hard for them to voice anything .... In fact other escorts voice against them and no, not helping them whatsoever ...

[samlad]

Should everyone just live in fear and shut up then?

These ladies don't have a voice and THAT is why this dirty business flourishes.

That's not actually what I am saying, but fair do's.

[Rachel Divine]

Is it Alex forced to post or to stop doing it other than on her own will?!

Be the dont go and see foreign young escorts because they might be trafficked is hard for them to voice anything .... In fact other escorts voice against them and no, not helping them whatsoever ...

"By the dont ...." my mistake ...

[UKHeather]

Is it Alex forced to post or to stop doing it other than on her own will?!

Be the dont go and see foreign young escorts because they might be trafficked is hard for them to voice anything .... In fact other escorts voice against them and no, not helping them whatsoever ...

Not once have I mentioned foreign escorts. Take up your issues with the right people.