One unfortunate thing about sex trafficking is that it's so charged, so rare, and has unambiguously "good victims" vs "bad guys" - there's a lot of incentive to identify as a victim, or play up the degree it's happened to you. This can muddy the waters of real vs fake victims
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Same issue with "believe all rape victims" - super good in theory, like women are often underbelived, but this well intentioned structure ends up providing strong social cover for bad actors. Lie about it and people are afraid to doubt you, because we've demonized doubt.
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All of this is tragic, because as long as bad actors can plausibly masquerade as good victims, the actual victims will be paying the price of being doubted.
(that being said there's a sex trafficking survivor on twitter whose story I find kinda sus but I'm afraid to say)
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You hit on some good points but lost me a bit with the “rare” part…maybe in much of the US, but around the world it’s happening on a pretty massive and horrifying scale tbh
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idk much about rates outside IS, but I am mostly referring to the discourse I see about the west in western circles
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown has been writing about this for a while. General perspective is that the problem is wildly exaggerated and numbers highly inflated. My interview with :
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similarly, most sexual abusers claiming they were abused as children are lying for sympathy
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Rare? You've never seen the inside of a brothel in Mexico with a dozen victims all in one location. ..... You don't want to either, it will change you. Trust me.
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