I anticipate downvoats and that this won't be a popular opinion here, but unless there's something about backpage I don't know about (which is certainly possible), it's hard to see this as a good thing in terms of helping kids and combatting sex-trafficking.
I'm not a fan of either, but there's a big difference between rape/sex-trafficking of unwilling kids and prostitution between consenting adults.
All this does is take prostitution off of the "mainstream" web (where it can be monitored and controlled for the worst abuses) and where Backpage cooperated with the Gov to avoid getting shut down and moves it to the darker web where it's harder to look up accurate info for safety of both Johns and hoes. Now prostitutes (it's not going away ever, it's the world's oldest profession for a reason) have less avenue to ply their trade safely and are even more at risk of actual trafficking IMO.
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cdglow ago
I anticipate downvoats and that this won't be a popular opinion here, but unless there's something about backpage I don't know about (which is certainly possible), it's hard to see this as a good thing in terms of helping kids and combatting sex-trafficking.
I'm not a fan of either, but there's a big difference between rape/sex-trafficking of unwilling kids and prostitution between consenting adults.
All this does is take prostitution off of the "mainstream" web (where it can be monitored and controlled for the worst abuses) and where Backpage cooperated with the Gov to avoid getting shut down and moves it to the darker web where it's harder to look up accurate info for safety of both Johns and hoes. Now prostitutes (it's not going away ever, it's the world's oldest profession for a reason) have less avenue to ply their trade safely and are even more at risk of actual trafficking IMO.
bopper ago
Totally understand, I doubt Q is worried about legal age prostitution, very likely, almost positively, this is about trafficking and more, worse.