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pageflight ,

Yuck, it does sound very blatant:

“I think it’s just pretty suspicious to see teenage girls dressed in club wear at 9:00, 10:00 in the morning paying for a hotel room during the week,” she replied.

She spoke about witnessing a pregnant woman being beaten to a bloody pulp by her trafficker in the bathroom and how housekeeping staff came each morning to remove garbage cans filled with condoms and bloody towels.

she encountered many of the same hotel staff repeatedly. Those employees witnessed her trafficker being frequently violent with her and “loud sounds of abuse could often be heard from the room,” the lawsuit alleges.

And accepted up the chain even when employees tried to report it:

Vanessa Cole, a general manager at one of the hotels between 2011 and 2012, said in her deposition that prostitution was a “consistent problem” that she reported “up the chain,” including to Moyer. She said Moyer responded by saying: “yes, we understand we have to, you know, clean up the place, but we also need to sell rooms.”

Stamau123 ,

“If we didn’t allow rooms to kidnappers, nobody would be staying in a red roof inn!”

Speculater ,
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That was an excellent article, I can’t believe there are enough customers for all this trafficking. It’s just insane to me that there are hundreds of thousands of men willing to rape these girls under the guise of being “paying for a service.”

I think this is a strong argument to legalize prostitution to provide legal recourse and protection for anyone in the profession who’s getting forced into the work.

FuglyDuck ,
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I think this is a strong argument to legalize prostitution to provide legal recourse and protection for anyone in the profession who’s getting forced into the work.

I agree with this statement. Sex work should be legalized, not least of which for protecting everyone involved. However… something to keep in mind is that… hundreds of thousands… is not that large a percentage of men. Even if you assume it’s 900,000 men, the total number of people in the US is 350 million- meaning that 900k is 0.25%. granted, I’m blending men and women- there’s plenty of women who also buy trafficked slaves as well. but if you figure half the people in the use are men, and it’s only men doing it… that’ still…half a percent.

FlyingSquid ,
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I can’t believe there are enough customers for all this trafficking.

In this world of incels and similar men who think they are entitled to sex, I can entirely believe it.

FuglyDuck ,
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I didn’t say I didn’t believe, but I felt context was necessary to the ‘hundreds of thousands’.

It’s not even a single percentage of people in the US. if we assume it’s only men, it’s barely half a percentage of men in the US.

girlfreddy ,

You’re only going on the numbers in this article tho. There are other instances of trafficking that raise those numbers exponentially.

Inquiry must validate stories of indigenous women prostituted on ships: NWAC

The United States, along with Mexico and the Philippines, was ranked one of the world’s worst places for human trafficking in 2018. In the US, there is no official number of human trafficking victims, but estimates place it in the hundreds of thousands.

Children are more vulnerable than adults. They’re easier to control, cheaper, and less likely to demand working conditions, researchers explained. More than 300,000 young people in the US are considered “at risk” of sexual exploitation.

555_1 ,

Thank you for pointing out that women also commit sex crimes. A fact that is often overlooked.

Zier ,
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More like Red Roofie Inn.

lennybird ,
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I’ll never forget moving out west on a cross-country road trip with my mom and little sister. We vetted most of our hotels pretty well but had to make an unplanned stop at a red roof inn on Oklahoma. What a complete shithole. Dingy, flickering half-lit hallways. Sketchiest people. I slept with a knife under my pillow.

555_1 ,

There were bed bugs under the pillow too.

CluckN ,

Each sleeping with a tiny knife.

cm0002 ,

I am just shocked, SHOCKED I say. Well, not that shocked.

ChihuahuaOfDoom ,

I promise, I will continue to not stay at red roof inns.

Dkarma ,

Forgot they even existed.

Bed big inn you say?

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