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I think legitimizing Sex Work just creates an opportunity for human traffickers to operate in broad daylight, sadly.
I disagree. Creating a legitimate marketplace creates room for regulations and law enforcement and kills black markets.
Human traffickers get a lot easier to catch if the trafficked can turn their traffickers in without fear of being arrested themselves for the things they were forced to do.
You're arguing against the science on this issue, it's a well established fact that countries that have legalized prostitution in the past have notably larger human trafficking inflows. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1986065
Wouldn't that be because they can actually measure their inflow since all of it is above board?
Human Trafficking is never above board. That's the whole point, the illegally kidnapping and forcing into sex slavery part increases. Which is the entire problem. The Human Traffickers don't start reporting the number of lives they've ruined out of good conscience, if that's what you thought?
Licensing fixes that
Licensing by the state entity is extremely rare for most professions, usually a licensing organization is made up from individuals participating in the industry based on wealth or political experience. What might actually fix it is constant auditing and oversight which, again, is extremely rare, and even then people would fall through the cracks just like with child protective services failing to find signs of abuse.
It's the same argument with drug dealers. Legalizing drugs will just let them operate in the open! Or, it'll kill an industry that only exists because it's illegal, and as soon as you open the legality up, people can operate more independently and with more protection.