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Posted By: Mike-Oxlong
CL and BP are/were breeding grounds for child prostitution. Virtually no screening and I would never use any of them.
Lets use ligit sights like TER.
See, this is that same free speech issue people have so much trouble getting their heads around. I hate certain forms of speech (racism, sexism, etc), but I will defend to the hilt someone's legal right to speak that way (while simultaneously berating them with my opinion of how pathetic they are and ostracizing them, or boycotting their products, or signing petitions for boycotts, or whatever- which is also my right). Because once their speech is taken away, when will it be my turn?
Funny how people are happy to throw a site they deem unworthy under the bus and imagine that somehow their own preferred sites will remain untouched. Idiotic thinking! Don't you realize that fear-mongering around child prostitution and trafficking is a ruse to end all prostitution and pornography? Yesterday Craigslist, today BP, tomorrow TER... I presume, Oxlong, that you're pretty young to remember the Meese Commission on pornography, but do a little digging on the subject and you will find all the same names behind this modern witch hunt. By researching this subject even further, you'll also find that most of the "facts" and "statistics" about child prostitution and trafficking are completely fabricated.
http://bust.com/blog/child-prostitution-statistics-found-through-bogus-research.html
And going back even further, google the "white slavery" scare of the 1800s. You'll find all the same propaganda.
Furthermore, nobody has done more to combat illicit uses of BP than BP itself. They bend over backward to help the police track down suspected traffickers and people forced into prostitution. There is no better way to address this than by letting the undesirables lay the paths to their own destruction by posting on BP. Do you really think for an instance that someone who wants to exploit someone else is going to just stop because craigslist and BP are shut down? Really??? Are you 12???
Not to mention the fact that many legit providers use BP as an inexpensive alternative to Eros, especially when Eros is unavailable in their area.
God knows you don't have to use BP, but must you wish them to disappear?
Be careful what you wish for- you might just get it.
-- Modified on 8/4/2012 9:19:22 PM
