In the "White Slavery" Panic Joanne McNeil has argued that anti-prostitution activists have equated sex work with slavery for over a century. She brings up some troubling statistics: "In 1999 the CIA estimated that 50,000 women in the US are trafficked for sex each year but that number seems to be wildly inflated. In September The Washington Post reported that, after spending $150 million on task ****** and grants since 2000, the federal government has identified only 1,362 victims of sex trafficking in the US The Post also reported that the original CIA estimate was the work of one analyst, who relied mainly on news clippings about overseas trafficking cases, from which she attempted to estimate US victims." That's it? $150,000,000 spent on going after sex trafficking and they were only able to find a paltry number 1,362?
MacNeil goes on to state, "Steve Wagner, former head of the anti-trafficking program within the Department of Health and Human Services, has commented on the millions of dollars '******' in grants aimed at combating sex slavery. 'Many of the organizations that received grants didn't really have to do anything,' he told The Washington Post last fall. 'They were available to help victims. There weren't any victims.' Tony Fratto, then deputy White House press secretary, said the issue is 'not about the numbers. It's really about the crime and how horrific it is.' There's no question the crime is horrific, but the numbers appear to be modest, unless you equate all prostitution with slavery."
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It seems to me anti-prostitution activists have grossly exaggerated the problem of so-called "human trafficking," "sex slavery," and have whipped the American populace into a frenzied state of panic over a threat which doesn't exist. Why would they do something like this?
MacNeil goes on to state, "Steve Wagner, former head of the anti-trafficking program within the Department of Health and Human Services, has commented on the millions of dollars '******' in grants aimed at combating sex slavery. 'Many of the organizations that received grants didn't really have to do anything,' he told The Washington Post last fall. 'They were available to help victims. There weren't any victims.' Tony Fratto, then deputy White House press secretary, said the issue is 'not about the numbers. It's really about the crime and how horrific it is.' There's no question the crime is horrific, but the numbers appear to be modest, unless you equate all prostitution with slavery."
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It seems to me anti-prostitution activists have grossly exaggerated the problem of so-called "human trafficking," "sex slavery," and have whipped the American populace into a frenzied state of panic over a threat which doesn't exist. Why would they do something like this?
