Prostitution is really the only reason that human trafficking exists at all today, so that fact alone is ample evidence that there is no way to cleanly separate the two.[/quote]
No – child soldiers kidnapped and brainwashed to fight wars could also be considered human trafficking. Think of the warlords in Uganda and Somalia that kidnap young boys and turn them into soldiers… using the same techniques that are used on prostitutes – get them dependent on drugs, systematically build up and destroy their esteem till they can’t think for themselves… enslave them.
In fact when you stated earlier:
[quote=harvey]
Although some jobs and roles in life have less dignity than others, it is universally accepted that prostitution is at the bottom of the scale – low enough that no one should have to do it simply because they have no alternative. [/quote]
(bolds are mine – that’s the bit that struck me when I first read it.)
The first thing that came to mind was that people forced to kill others might be considered by some to be lower on the scale. So not so universally accepted.
I personally would rather sleep with icky people than kill someone who’d done me no harm just because someone told me too.
