{"id":28285,"date":"2015-09-24T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28285"},"modified":"2015-09-15T09:54:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T13:54:25","slug":"qotd-sex-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/09\/24\/qotd-sex-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Sex trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I am often asked if, by calling &#8220;sex trafficking&#8221; a myth, I&#8217;m saying that there is no such thing as coercion in sex work. The answer, of course, is &#8220;not at all&#8221;; what I&#8217;m saying is 1) that coercion is much rarer than &#8220;trafficking&#8221; fetishists pretend it is; 2) that the term &#8220;trafficking&#8221; is used to describe many different things along a broad spectrum running from absolutely coercive to absolutely not coercive, yet all of them are shoehorned into a lurid, melodramatic and highly-stereotyped narrative; and 3) that even situations of genuine coercion rarely bear much resemblance to the familiar masturbatory fantasy of an &#8220;innocent&#8221; middle-class girl in her early teens abducted by &#8220;pimps&#8221; from a shopping mall, bus stop or internet chat room.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie McNeill, <a href=\"http:\/\/maggiemcneill.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/10\/the-face-of-trafficking\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Face of Trafficking&#8221;, <em>The Honest Courtesan<\/em><\/a>, 2014-10-10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am often asked if, by calling &#8220;sex trafficking&#8221; a myth, I&#8217;m saying that there is no such thing as coercion in sex work. The answer, of course, is &#8220;not at all&#8221;; what I&#8217;m saying is 1) that coercion is much rarer than &#8220;trafficking&#8221; fetishists pretend it is; 2) that the term &#8220;trafficking&#8221; is used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,41],"tags":[343,931,520,605,43],"class_list":["post-28285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-media","category-quotations","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-moralpanic","tag-prostitution","tag-slavery","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7md","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28286,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28285\/revisions\/28286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}