I'd propose a simple reason for this. I would imagine a lot of the inflow is from other countries where prostitution is still illegal. Traffickers move them to legal countries, possibly even legal brothels, and coerce the person to stay quiet. Johns don't have any reason to suspect, because it's legal, so it may provide safety to the traffickers, in a hiding in plain site way.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, or if the article addresses this in some way. I'll read it a bit later.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

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.