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[___closetome]

This week the Village Voice continued its 'investigative' series on the issue of sex trafficking in the U.S.. Framed as a hard-hitting expose uncovering the 'truth,' the series merely serves as thinly veiled editorials with a clear objective -- to disprove the existence of sex trafficking in the U.S. and to discredit those who have criticized

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[kittymink]

Wow... saw this story in SW Weekly (same company as the Voice and the VV has fallen really far and hard.)

[karikinetic]

...I just read the VV article and it strikes me as pretty fucking measured in both scope and dedicated research. The fact that this article quotes Linda "Let's criminalize underage teens having sex!" Smith as a barometer for the number of underaged sex slaves in this country makes IT more questionable than the Village Voice article

[tiddlywinks103]

ITA

[dangerousdame]

Thank you.

[___closetome]

Was the 300k # was taken out of context, yes. But the VV trying to minimize the national figure to only "a few hundred" is hella shady, naive at best and privileged at worst.

[romp]

It's good to question an often-repeated statistic like the “100,000 to 300,000.” But going to police arrests for The Truth is clearly a bad idea.

The graph is a problem. I've seen that many sex workers who look underage just from driving around. And Seattle is a larger city than Portland but you could find that many over a few weeks. If Portland has 1500-2000 homeless kids, am I supposed to think only 1 in 100 engages in survival sex? IDGI

[___closetome]

Exactly, is 300k an inaccurate #? Yeah. But the VV turning around and trying to minimize it all the way down to "a few hundred" child prostitutes in ALL OF AMERICA? That's shady as hell considering their investment in this issue.