Out of the mouth of a New Orleans law enforcement official.

Selling is trafficking.  So I guess even if you have not been coerced and are working only for yourself, if you sell your body you are sex trafficking.  Trouble is, at that point the definition becomes useless in discriminating between what should be a crime and what should not.

The Feds define human trafficking thus:

They were all tourists traps with no locals hanging out.  I should have noticed that and stayed away.

I stripped for a year or so before transitioning into escorting.  I have always been completely independent, and there is no way that anything I have done could be considered sex trafficking.  That said, I can see how it would be possible for predators to "shop" at strip clubs for women who might be vulnerable to exploitation.  

Did you ever see this happen or experience being 'recruited' by a pimp?  Just curious.

This is a frequently used tactic by the hypocritical "family values" politicians. They try to legislate morality by tying 'immoral' acts to much worse but only loosely-related acts, i.e. sex work and human trafficking, or marijuana use facilitating cartel wars, etc.

If you think sexuality is solely constrained by right wingers you haven't visited college campuses these days.

I did see plenty of girls saying yes when they wanted to say no - usually due to a drug problem.  And I did see the occasional predator who got off on the power of exploiting desperation.  I also saw plenty of girls exploiting the drunkenness and/or naivete of male patrons.  The sex industry offers unique opportunities to exploit human vulnerabilities all the way around.  Fortunately, it is possible to avoid the ugliness and to maximize the joy - a fact I can happily vouch for!  

that seeks to cure the problem by killing the means of survival.

Single scenario where a woman CHOOSES sex work is being forced, coerced, or defrauded. Maybe the OP can explain how he gets to this conclusion, but I doubt it.

where the men are men and so are the women.

Lion-butt:  you demonstrate for all who read here your inability to read.  

This was not the OP's opinion. Pleas read the text of the message before replying to the subject line.

When I came out of high school, one of my friends was a stripper in Milwaukee. I spent a lot of time at that place, because she was such a good friend. All the girls would come sit with my friend and I when it was slow. An observation I made is it takes a certain type of woman to be a good stripper. All the “nice girls” had a hard time taking a guys money and ended up quitting, because they were not making money. They would sit with these guys who told them sad stories, they tried to connect with them, to empathize, and then they never got sexy and danced...they never took the guys money! LOL. The girls who could smile, be sexy and work the room cleaned up.

Snowflakes, safe spaces ... etc.  Social Justice Warriors don't have "conversations"  they are either lecturing or reporting you for thought crimes.

Thank you to the Delegate from Hawaii for offering a verifying observation to Lion-Butt's failure to read.

I have never been a stripper.... way too much work for less money than I make now.  Not to mention I would have a REALLY hard time following the "no touching" rules at most clubs.  

I just got back from a week long trip with a client to New Orleans!  We hit every club in the French quarter and had a blast.  You might want to go closer to Mardi Gras..... or go with a sexy lady on your arm.  

Well said.

Don't forget the unbearable smell of Bourbon Street...

Mass hysteria about trafficking has existed since forever. Ohmygod the homosexuals, they'll catch your kids and traffic them and turn them gay! The strippers and the sugar babies and the cutesey backpage emojis! Sex trafficking!  

So many that I coined a term for them, BSU.  

So true, gotta keep them chained  , how else they going to continue to wind  up and kick them in the nuts.

while I wouldn't disagree that radical feminism can have issue with that assumption, its not representative of feminist ideology at all. Its actually quite the opposite for the majority of 3rd wave feminists.

What's the take on Camille Paglia these days?  She used to say stuff like, A woman's body is the temple at which men pray. And they bring offerings (bills in the garter; envelopes on the dresser) to the goddesses.  Etc..  ... It is a power trip to be a stripper or other SW.  And you should go for it, if you so desire.