I agree completely. I've worked with a couple of agencies in the past, and none of them forced me to do anything. I worked with them because it was beneficial to me at the time to do so, and I chose to do so of my own free will. I have no doubt that there are women who are forced, pressured, or coerced, to work, and I fully support prosecuting those who actually do that. But to presume that any woman who is working with an agency (or a booking agent for that matter) is being trafficked, is insulting. It presents an assumption that women are incapable for thinking for themselves, and making their own choices.
Was listening to NPR in the car today....
http://www.shaheen.senate.gov/news/press/release/?id=9a26849b-fee5-4874-9c45-4b0ae2f18e76
A small step (very necessary in my opinion) in the path to pointing LE away from the innocent.
Good thinking on the part of the senator from our neighbor state!
There is already a lot of motivation for women who get arrested to claim that they are being trafficked when it simply is not true. I fear that even more women are going to claim the "I was trafficked" defense because of this law.
I remember the first famous "trafficking" case in Atlanta several years back involving many of the Brazilian agencies that got national press. I personally knew the chica that first cried "I was trafficked" and started the whole chain in motion, and I can state for an absolute fact that she was not being trafficked as I saw her many times outside of "work" and even spent a couple of OTC overnights in her "real" apartment, not the agency incall location.
I agree that trafficking does occur and needs to be stopped, but does allowing every hooker who gets busted to get off, and her record expunged, just by claiming she was trafficked really sound like such a great idea to you?
your point: "but does allowing every hooker who gets busted to get off... seem like a good idea to you?"
Heck, yes! And I will leave it that...
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would be to "prove" someone else was guilty of a felony. Talk about a slippery slope, and a horrible miscarriage of justice.
See, that's the problem with "let's leave it at that" it can cause some very bad laws to be passed, but passed with the best of intentions.
Do you really think it is fair for a scared young woman to claim the agency owner she works for is actually her pimp in order to avoid a few days in jail after being pressured for hours by the vice cop who wants a bigger scalp on his belt?
I agree completely. I've worked with a couple of agencies in the past, and none of them forced me to do anything. I worked with them because it was beneficial to me at the time to do so, and I chose to do so of my own free will. I have no doubt that there are women who are forced, pressured, or coerced, to work, and I fully support prosecuting those who actually do that. But to presume that any woman who is working with an agency (or a booking agent for that matter) is being trafficked, is insulting. It presents an assumption that women are incapable for thinking for themselves, and making their own choices.
they will be expecting you to prove you are a victim
not going to be as easy as you think.
the key I would think would be to just NOT get arrested. screen screen screen!!