I think maybe the fact that the frequency of people being kidnapped, shipped to another country, and forced into sex work against their will increasing as a direct and clear correlation of the decriminalization still stands regardless of the policies of the countries of origin. More avoidable harm comes from decriminalizing, and we don’t have a very clear solution yet other than the slow modernization of the whole world.
Sure, there’s a validity in it regardless of anything else, but the mechanism is important. If it’s not a clear causal relationship, if it’s instead just correlative, then it doesn’t make any sense to base policy decisions on it, though. Murder rates go up at the same time ice cream sales do, but we’re not banning ice cream.
I think maybe the fact that the frequency of people being kidnapped, shipped to another country, and forced into sex work against their will increasing as a direct and clear correlation of the decriminalization still stands regardless of the policies of the countries of origin. More avoidable harm comes from decriminalizing, and we don’t have a very clear solution yet other than the slow modernization of the whole world.
Sure, there’s a validity in it regardless of anything else, but the mechanism is important. If it’s not a clear causal relationship, if it’s instead just correlative, then it doesn’t make any sense to base policy decisions on it, though. Murder rates go up at the same time ice cream sales do, but we’re not banning ice cream.