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on the part of federal/local LE when it comes to understanding, and responsibly managing sex work [in Seattle]

They've detained and are deporting all of those who were trafficked warning its just the beginning. It's human trafficking month. I tried to put the info on one of the regional boards here  12 hrs ago but it never went through. They have a graph of targeted areas of  trafficking on King County site.

After reading the article and the comments posted for the article it is saddening to see how many people cannot differentiate prostitution and sex slavery. Perhaps most of these people do not want to understand the difference because it's just easier to invent a simplistic and incorrect view that P4P = exploitation and rape. The other faction I absolutely love to hate are the sanctimonious pricks that label all providers as poor defenseless victims and clients as amoral misogynists. Some idiot even tried to insinuate that existence of sex work is the directly responsible for serial killers targeting prostitutes. Are you fucking serious?!? There is not enough time available to fix this mindset. I can only handle so much idiocy in one day.

What was the other one? I only heard about Thereviewboard.

It wasn't really a "board" so to speak but more a K girl fan site.

it's people unknowingly and unconsciously supporting the patriarchal view of not letting women have agency over their own bodies.  the flip side of the insidious  anti-abortion coin.

in case any of you guys in Seattle didn’t notice the “Best Employers Alliance” crap at the end of this article?  

Nevermind...I saw the other one was the K-girl website that got shut down.

But public, illegal sex lives are, and that's the difference plants. It may not be what you or I would want, but the business needs to look out for its own best interests.

In the FBI report there were some pretty sad excerpts from reviews of these women. The men knew in this particular case.

I don't doubt it's just the beginning.

Agreed on both points.

...worker?  How would they know that for a fact?  The article said: "...agencies that move women from city to city after they arrived in the U.S. and 'bookers' who book appointments for the women, according to the charges."  That's the same MO that happens with TER K-girls.  I don't know whether they are trafficked or not.  What evidence do you have that they are NOT trafficked

SEX, the hottest subject in the world. So many perverted views on this subject.  Prostitution should be legalized.  Women who are slaves should seek help.  Women who want to give pleasure and are good at it are an asset to Humanity.  We seek this pleasure and some perv wants to deny it, that is unnatural

The K-Dynasty.com site is still up. I am sure the feds are only keeping that up so they can investigate and bust even  more involved. There were tremendous amount of K girls working within a few blocks of one another on the Eastside  for over five years. I wonder who didnt get paid or which insider wanted more...and brought it all down?!

If Seattle wants to ferret-out the problems with marginalized sex workers, the absolute *worst* thing the city can do is slam in a finishing nail with a sledge-hammer. The best allies in this 'fight', to identify and help anyone in trouble, are active sex workers and their clients. Basically, shine some light in the dark corners, open the dialog and welcome anyone reporting abuses (without fear of arrest...retribution, job loss, civll asset forfeiture...etc..).  

we support and enjoy p4p. A majority of members of "our" group here do this of our own free will, albeit not that free. But the seedy underbelly of the industry is how it's portrayed and sold to a listening and unaware public.  

Let's try to cover the sun with one finger. Let's put everything under one blanket statement. I feel providing is a victimless crime what is the problem. All of a sudden if you are a sex worker you have been brought to this country by someone else or you have been forced into this or you are crack head. It's ridiculous, this what LE enforcement focus on when there is so much more in the world going on. Go after the provider that WANTS to do this but let's not catch the guy that's importing children into this country and others so they can become sex slaves. It's ludicrous.

Your are very right

Wonder how much we could bring down our U.S debt  If f- government just legalized, "prostitution."  tax it etc etc.  W T F??!!!

I love how so many of those red, white, and blue Americans trumpet and preach how the US is the land of the free.  The US is so free that you can not even use your own body how see best?  You are so free that you are not able to make money on your best assets?

to risk any possibility of contributing to any coercive situations, whether they are or are not called 'human trafficking' or 'sex slavery'.  I personally don't know anything about K-girls or agencies, cannot judge them, but as you imply there just seems to be a more significant risk to my ignorant mind that they might, *might* involve coercion and I will stick to independents.

Prostitution is legal in certain counties of Nevada.  It's illegal in Las Vegas but there are brothels in some of the outlying counties.  Ever heard of the Mustang Ranch or the Bunny Ranch?  Both legal.

The goal has never been about sex worker safety or saving victims, it's about punishing people whom the government views as blatantly skirting its rules and then wringing from them all the assets that it can.

The women that you see in the article and the videos are members of the OTHFB club. Hell yes they want prostitution rings busted, then we would have to settle for them.  

….it pisses me off!!!

another reason i never see k girls.

There is a bill currently being pushed through for legalization.

The problem is, they all give the same answer: they can see the sense in decriminalizing sex work and working in tandem with providers and clients to go after the real criminals, BUT...they're afraid of being perceived as laissez-faire crime, and therefore, not getting re-elected.  Where's Jesse Ventura when you need him?!