Thread by @EllyArrow

Government report on #prostitution states: "We do not have a problem with child trafficking". One paragraph later "a significant number of sex workers first sold sex as minors". Me: 🤨🤨🤨

That's what you get when denying the connection between adult & child commercial sexual exploitation even though the evidence is right in front of your eyes. Domestic child trafficking is still trafficking. It's not sex work. It's not kids selling sex. It's not underage sex work.

I really really don't wanna hear the mantra of "sex work isn't sex trafficking" when every evidence of clear definitive coercion (e.g. CHILDREN) is neatly rebranded "sex work" by the folks who espouse this. You're the ones who have a problem distinguishing. You really really do.

Also, let me tell you about #decriminalization: It means the removal of laws specific to #prostitution. You know who decriminalized prostitution? Switzerland. They decriminalized so hard they accidentally decriminalized buying and selling 16-17-year-olds. ellyarrow.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/pse…

And in New Zealand you cannot legally remove 17-year-olds from brothels or street #prostitution without their consent. That's the country my original tweet was about: 1/3 enter as minors, but they don't have a problem with child trafficking. Smth not right ellyarrow.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/chi…

You better believe I am not gonna forget this: The exact same rhetoric as applied to adults "let it happen, don't interfere too much, otherwise it will go underground and that's when it gets really bad" - applied to children by the New Zealand's Prostitutes Collective:

Or this extremly creepy paper by one of the biggest international lobbying groups for an expanded legal and deregulated sex trade: The NSWP (Global Network of Sex Work Projects) calling kids "sex workers" who may choose to do it for love and for goodies. ellyarrow.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/mor…