https://www.9news.com/article/news/politics/colorado-bill-decriminalize-prostitution/73-37acc26a-92cf-4f13-87bb-0ff68060b8c0

New colorado bill trying to move in that direction.  
I hope it gains traction and sets the pace.

"Frizell said law enforcement has expressed concern about the bill's practical implications, particularly around determining whether an individual is engaged in sex work consensually or is being trafficked. She said she consulted with Douglas County Sheriff Wheatley, who shares those concerns."

 
I mean if this isn't a direct admittal that they themselves can't tell consensual sex work and trafficking apart and just classify ANY sex in exchange for money as trafficking, I don't know what is.

But hey, get a camera and an OF account and suddenly it's all clear and legal and consensual ain't it?

Smh

For example, when your choice of a career comes down to working for pennies in a legal garment sweatshop where the foreman has a fringe benefit of feeling you up whenever he feels like it, or going to America and working in a massage parlor where you at least make enough to live OK, and even send your family some money, tell me:  Is that trafficking or not?

 
One thing is for certain:   If sex work is decriminalized then the gal will have a much better chance of demanding fair treatment under the law than what exists now.   Of course there is also the whole issue of immigration which is another matter, but still, I can't see how the situation can become anything but better than what we have now.

 
Decriminalization is SOP in most of the western world, so the question isn't will it work, but why we haven't adopted it.

So if you dont like your gig you come to the states to do illegal sex work?  Instead of legal sex work in same said country?  

Yes, that is 100% trafficking in every sense of the term

I see a few gals on here that claim they are parents, yet are advertising that they are working gals.  

Dumb move to advertise that....but if decriminalization happens, not as much to worry about.

Huh?  So they are trafficking themselves?

But rather they just label every form of sex work as trаfficking and call it a day.

 
It's yet again an instance of not wanting the people to know the actual truth or any nuance, but rather throwimg a blanket statement label and be done with it because it's easiest and also gets the most brownie points.

 
Unless it's onlyfаns. Then you're not trаfficked but a "model" doing camera "work".

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there should be some degree of consent involved to call it “trafficking”  

many women who 100% choose sex work will turn on the tears when busted and say they were forced and “trafficked” into doing knowing full well they will get a slap on the wrist and full support from all manner of non profits…more importantly, they can leverage that to get legal immigration status

that’s taking resources away from actual trafficked women who are abused

and is survival sex work “trafficking?”  

if poverty forces a woman to sell sex acts for money, are the men patronizing her “traffickers?” the current political climate even with this president would say YES…

Whether this passes or not, I believe it is the most positive step forward we have seen towards real decriminalization. The debate and dialogue has been engaged; it is in the open. I believe this gives visibility and voice to sex workers who have been forever marginalized and ignored.