Asian girls wandering into the prairie seems to be a topic of perennial interest on this board.

If you are commenting on the Bloomington women, they are Thai. I've been to Bangkok where women of legal age work in beer bars and go go bars of their own free will. They can come and go as they please. There's no coercion. The Thai women that travel here are making the kind of money a high price escort in Bangkok makes, except in the USA the time limit is an hour usually and the "menu" is more limited. In Thailand you can spend several days with a woman if you make a connection for the price you're paying for one hour in the USA. As far as Mandarin, I rarely see Chinese escorts traveling to Minnesota. Thai, Korean, Filipina, Japanese, and several Hmong ladies usually.
Your discomfort is unfounded IMHO.

With society becoming more permissive, feminists and churchies need to keep the limelight on the profession.  One way to do that is to claim there is trafficking around every corner.  Most of the women that I've had the opportunity to actually communicate with will tell you of their comings and goings.  

Media reports are full of claims of trafficking but when you look at the stories on actual busts, seldom do you see anything more than general claims.

with many women here illegally and working both at the restaurants during the day and being trafficked in the evenings.  They live in a boarding house situation and the bulk of the money goes to the handler.  I was told that every single waitress in a number of restaurants have this life and get paid very little themselves.  It's a problem.  The very pretty ladies are brought over from China under duress and they will do everything they can to protect their families.  I hear this from an attorney that handles these cases for Hennepin county.    

Another place is at the nail shops....I'm refraining from a tangent on why people should try to get to know these ladies & how to tell what's going on with them just from a simple conversation.

Trafficking is real and it's in MN. Some busts have made the paper.  The hallmarks are younger, isolated women, low prices, high mobility, and a very active handler. That isn't to say every low-priced Asian is being trafficked, but when I see these girls appear with TGTBT prices and looks, with no review history, poor language skills, and an "agency" they set off alarm bells and I stay away. I just assume they are all given a cover story to reassure prying customers who, of course, really want to believe it's voluntary anyway. And maybe it is.

Yes, there too!!!  I hear this as well.

t likely "voluntary" when they are that young and working for agency.  It's China and there are dire consequences otherwise.  They're screwed.

They ask for help and get sent back or they risk so much to stay here. So do"we" support them in the hobby??

Where are these "young" Chinese you speak of?  Most of the ads for "young" Chinese women end up being a lady that is probably at the youngest 45, most likely in her 50's.

60 to 80% of nails shops are owned by Vietnamese in the U.S. The Koreans are next largest group, mostly in LA and NY. Chinese are a bit player. I am in the nail biz and we do not have trafficking for the most part. Honestly, our set-up and public access is not friendly to this type of activity.

100 percent BS.  I've dated a few and watched a few open their own stores after working at a R&T for a while.  The story is primarily the same.  Divorced/Seperated/Widowed woman with no way to provide a living back in China.  Not sure what your agenda here is PersonX with your alias.  But, it's obviously just to spread lies, supposition and fear.  The women also know the risks involved.  There are plenty of Chinese parlors here in town that stopped giving HE cause they don't want the risk.  
 

Of course trying to figure that out is easier said than done.  If all this were legal, it would make it easier to figure out.

It appears we both have the market cornered on truth. When a Chinese provider tells me she is moved around the country from rub and tug, to rub and tug - and she's not only one - am I to assume she is BSing me? Perhaps the MT that you frequent and date are not the folks off the boat, but more established folks. Imagine a Chinese person of limited English skills opening a shop after a short time here. I know in this time you will have already met, seduced and dated such a person to be able to form your universal opinion.  

Élan, the Derp dude is right. These are not young women by any stretch of the imagination. The fake photos are hot, but for the most part, the actual ones are not. Nice folks, but nothing like underage, exploited as you may have been lead to believe

In which case, we would still be seeing the same ladies we are now in much the same fashion.

I see little difference between someone who is trafficked and a girl being managed by a pimp; you could also consider those driven by substance abuse.  If you hobby long enough and travel far enough you'll eventually encounter some questionable situations.  At the end of the day you never know the full story. You can avoid some of this locally by seeing women that are asian-american (for the most part), independent and well reviewed.

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