http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-sex-trafficking-20110816,0,1695980.story

Fight the scourge of sex trafficking
Government needs to step up and increase its efforts to combat the growing problem of sex trafficking

"Melissa," one of the girls we've encountered in street outreach in Baltimore, is originally from Baltimore County. As a child, she loved fairies and wanted to be a dancer. After her parents' divorce, she experimented with drugs, which opened her up to a world of darkness she could not have imagined. Vulnerable and looking for her own identity, she was soon approached by a "boyfriend" who promised to care for her, but he was actually a trafficker who fueled her habit and sold her for sex up and down the I-95 corridor, profiting from the abuse of her body by those who would pay the price. Years later, once he had "used her up," he left her for dead on the streets of Baltimore City. Today she "survives" on drugs and selling the only thing of value that she has.

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although some of the ladies in the business are choosing what they are doing, great many others are forced to do this stuff.

unfortunately many of TER power users just like to look the other way and get their discounted session in return for a review or a Mini instead of trying to stop a tragedy like this or avoid promoting it, but again we all know men are pigs!

With the independents not so much....but the agency ladies I worry if they are not the victims of exploitation.

Hence my attraction to Asian ladies has to be tempered by this.

I agree that trafficking of any kind is odious and should be vigorously prosecuted.  So, please tell us what you yourself are doing to prevent trafficking and don't forget to include advice on how we exploiters should behave.

a story about drug addiction and bad parenting, that left her vulnerable?
Dose any media outlet report on the positive side of the sex industry?

The link directs you to the main article which has rest of the story.
It said more than that....  and this was about sex-*trafficking* not about the sex-industry in general.

I'd hate to see a girl who's been trafficked. Yet it's a growing problem. Many of us probably unwillingly saw some ladies who were trafficked without even smelling a hint of it.

I'm referring to the woman in the story, and how society breeds victims. Sex traffcking is a huge part of the sex industry. I'm sure every one has seen a woman that has been trafficked in some form.

Tough question. I have run into a few reluctant, shy gals in my massage parlor days, which left me feel a little morally quesy. But I do believe that, by restricting myself to independents (mostly but not all Asians) I am with girls who've chosen this life to make a lot of money quickly without working terribly hard. Some do it  for tragic reasons (sick mother, etc.), some fore foolish reasons (they borrowed too much from the Korean Yakuza and now must serve an indentureship to pay it back) and some for silly reasons (they're shallow, not particularly morally oriented, like the travel and flirting, don't mind the sex, like the clothes they spend too much on, etc)  But nowhere in my adventures have I met a girl who seemed forlorn, downcast, secretly depressed. But of course I don't WANT to meet that girl, so I'd talk myself out of what my eyes saw if I ever did.  In the end, they don't call it the oldest profession for nothing; it'll always be here. So my deal with the devil is to try and buy some recompense by always being decent, courteous, generous and amiable with the girls, never trying to dominate, never trying to manipulate, accepting with good grace the particular No that comes of this request or that. I'm not sure what else can be done.