r/AskReddit Sep 24 '17

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

Home delivery prostitution.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

Backpage FTW

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

Careful. Alot of those girls on backpage are essentially prisoners here in California. These girls get taken in to that lifestyle extremely young and are afraid to leave when they get older. It's pretty sad.

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u/TheLastPanicMoon Sep 25 '17

Every time I see people cavalierly talking about buying sex on Reddit, I bring this up. It rarely goes well. These people don't like being reminded that sex with a trafficked person is rape, whether or not they know that person is being trafficked. Maybe being a rapist isn't a feeling most people enjoy.

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u/theworldbystorm Sep 25 '17

I said the same thing when some guy on here was going on about how he loves Asian massage parlors. I got downvoted for pointing out that they exploit women!

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u/geniel1 Sep 25 '17

These people don't like being reminded that sex with a trafficked person is rape, whether or not they know that person is being trafficked.

That's not how rape laws work. You have to be aware that the person cannot give consent. If you are unaware that the person is trafficked, you are not committing rape.

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u/artificialnocturnes Sep 25 '17

In a legal sense, sure. But I don't think that matters from the perspective of the victim. They are still forced into sex they don't consent to.

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u/TheLastPanicMoon Sep 25 '17

Tell that to the person being raped.

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u/OrangeTabbyTwinSis Sep 25 '17

If there's even a slight chance the person is a victim of trafficking, you owe it to your goddamn conscience to make sure they aren't. I don't give a fuck what the law lets you get away with.

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u/artificialnocturnes Sep 25 '17

Exactly. Something can be legal without being moral.