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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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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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Globally around 4+ million by most measures, but even in the US most estimates seem to be in the tens of thousands, some estimates of six figures which surprised me. But im sure like with most things some of the discourse is nonetheless quite skewed compared to actuarial data.

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I did a deep dive on this last year:

aella.substack.com

What Percentage of Sex Workers in the US are Trafficked?

What percentage of sex workers in the US are trafficked? This is a really hard question. Many numbers about sex trafficking are actually about general trafficking, and the rest of them seem to bubble...

5:45 AM · Jan 23, 2023

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Awesome, will check it out. Thanks for sharing!