The former detective was sentenced to 33 months for running five illicit massage parlors that offered commercial sex services and exploited workers.
  • cbarrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    341·
    1 year ago

    The former detective and three parlor managers allegedly exploited their employees, […]

    This is the only sentence with any real meaning in the entire article.

    Sex work is work, and if there is no victim then there is no crime.

    But this single half-sentence claims that the employees were victims, without elaborating further.

    So props if the cops actually helped someone, but if they’re just arresting people for prostitution then there are better uses of tax dollars.

    • Seraph@kbin.social
      8·
      1 year ago

      To your point the line between sex trafficking and prostitution needs to be more clear, but I think that’s difficult when sex work is illegal.

      The only reason I can think that politicians wouldn’t want the taxes from sex workers is because they themselves would be the primary funders.

      • Zorque@kbin.social
        8·
        1 year ago

        They don’t want to make it legal because pearl-clutchers actually turn up to elections.