Wow. Do you even know what the word “trigger” means, cuz it doesn’t sound like it from that reply. Some sex educator you must be.

But for the record, (a) I’m not assuming anything about what sex workers will or will not be able to do; (b) I’m not asserting that any victims of trafficking are lying.

Really. So how is this going to “skew statistics” if there is no lying involved, unless you just want to paint accurate statistics as skewed. Me, I don’t think statistics are all that important compared to women’s lives, especially the lives of women who have been trafficked and sex workers.

My position is that I’m in favor of this law, and I’m glad that sex workers will have more options, especially because I can imagine few nightmares worse than being coerced into sex work. However, I suspect that this law will not only increase reported incidences of trafficking, but that those incidences will not always be accurate. This is an acceptable cost for the law, but it is a real cost, mainly paid in knowledge about the landscape of sex work.

That’s good at least. Shows you are at least a somewhat decent human being, but again, you are still calling trafficking victims liars. “Reported incidences of trafficking will not always be accurate” under this law? This is a very victim-centered law. So again, you are calling trafficking victims liars, just dressing it up in fancier language.

Oh, and also? Considering that ridiculously extreme, absurdly conservative notions about trafficking are routinely used to attack and restrict consensual adult sexual expression

When that happens, I argue against it. I have done this very publicly on numerous occasions, especially when the laws in questions are harmful to victims of trafficking also.

— I mean, some of my sex worker friends in Chicago have even described trafficking as a “red herring” —

Then they are assholes, scum, who I am ashamed to say may even be working for sex workers rights but are shooting themselves in the foot in the process. I wish I could say they are not part of the movement I am part of, but broadly speaking, they probably are.

I would think that a consenting adult sex worker would be a little more concerned about laws that give so much power to the trafficking crusade without acknowledging the right of consenting adult sex workers to engage in their profession.

Hi, I don’t think we’ve met and I don’t think you know anything about my story, my history, and my current sex work employment status. So stop making assumptions.

Furthermore I DO ACKNOWLEDGE THE RIGHTS OF CONSENTING SEX WORKERS TO CONTINUE IN THEIR PROFESSIONS.

Maybe you could point out how you think this gives more power to the “trafficking lobby.”

My position is that I’m in favor of this law, and I’m glad that sex workers will have more options, especially because I can imagine few nightmares worse than being coerced into sex work. However, I suspect that this law will not only increase reported incidences of trafficking, but that those incidences will not always be accurate. This is an acceptable cost for the law, but it is a real cost, mainly paid in knowledge about the landscape of sex work.