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Aella
@Aella_Girl
My final estimate is that 3.2% of all in-person sex workers in the United States are sex trafficked. But between inconsistent definitions and shoddy data keeping, it's very hard to have high confidence; I wouldn't be surprised if the real number were somewhere between 1%-8%
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
What percentage of sex workers are trafficked? I try to make an estimate: aella.substack.com/p/what-percent
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sphinx
@protosphinx
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@Aella_Girl
I disagree as this only covers independent commercial sex workers. Walk into any massage parlour in any major city and you’ll meet an array of woman - mostly trafficked. Most are there on illegal status. Applies to almost all Asian and Latino places.
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sphinx
@protosphinx
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@Aella_Girl
Trafficked ratio appears very high in a massage parlours - central to sexual activity (certainly more than 1 in 5 or 20%). Again this is purely anecdotal and my disagreement is just subjective. There’s no way to prove otherwise without getting law enforcement involved.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@protosphinx
High sex trafficking rates in massage parlors also seems compatible with my findings? I estimated around 40k total sex trafficked ppl in the US, maybe most of those are in massage parlors. Tons of sex workers aren't in massage parlors though!
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