No. The money they could get is not worth it. Prostitutes are overwhelmingly, and I mean incredibly, overwhelmingly, vulnerable populations - people who are migrants and don't speak the language, people with serious addition or mental health issues, kids from extreme dysfunction and backgrounds of abuse. I think it's something like 65% of prostitutes were foster kids. About 60% of prostitutes were sexually abused as children. Some don;t even realize that it was abuse.
These are victims easy to control.
You get an educated, privileged young woman, from a happy family and snatch her off the street and try to sell her? She's going to fight hard. She's going to know her rights more often than not. She's going to have the world hunting for her.
It's not worth the risk.
Like I said, almost anything is possible, but I will eat my hat if it is the case here.
In the end, what I've found is there is white slavery narrative that informs the sex trafficking theory. It is a narrative used by people like Sherri Papini to alarm the public. It has its roots in racism (research the Mann act) and is based on the premise that beautiful, young, upper, middle class white women and girls are prey for violent men of color or foreigners.
It was actually (the Mann Act and the white slavery myth that was based on), designed in part to prevent white women from dating or marrying black men and in part as a backlash against feminism.
The ‘White Slavery’ Law That Brought Down Jack Johnson Is Still in Effect Today
So because it is not rooted in fact, I like to discuss the facts when the theory inevitably comes up.
Caveat, my B.A. is in American Studies so this stuff fascinates me.
