A pal 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 just a few 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 instructed 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 enticing 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. Once I obtained again to my desk I googled circumstances of intercourse trafficking in Raleigh Targets. She was proper: there have been no less than 4 or 5 excessive profile circumstances. However once I learn by means of over a dozen paragraphs, I ultimately discovered that they have 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, no less than one girl in Raleigh was frightened of going to Goal for concern of being kidnapped. (italics added)