You have not connected the dots.
Human mind is an incredible pattern seeking machine. Sometimes it even sees patterns that aren't there.
Those foreign born and foreign import prostitutes are the product of human trafficking.
All of them? How do you know that?
Look, I know there is human trafficking in the sex industry. But that doesn't mean that prostitution automatically entails human trafficking like many activists claim. Neither is existence of human trafficking a reason to outlaw the entire industry and to criminalize customers. In the US there is human trafficking involved in farm labor. That doesn't mean that food industry should be outlawed.
Why would you want to penalize them as victims of human trafficking?
Why do you assume they are victims of human trafficking just because they are foreign born?
And I do not want to penalize any sex workers for being involved in sex work (nor do I want to penalize their customers). If they are victims of human trafficking prosecute the traffickers. If they are illegal aliens that came to France or any other country voluntarily they should be penalized for that and not prostitution.
But I definitely do not think a facile equation of foreign born prostitutes with human trafficking victims is justifiable at all as there are many avenues a foreign born woman can become a prostitute without being a victim of trafficking.
Why are you assuming that the French government does not go after human trafficking?
They could do that without criminalizing customers who are not doing the trafficking.
Not criminalizing the victims is a recognition that this is not about the rosy scenario of "people who want to engage in sex in between consenting adults".
Victims should not be criminalized. But at the same time sex workers should not automatically be declared as "victims" pretty much by definition.
Rather the repeated infernal vicious circle of "recruiters" exploiting the state of dire poverty of those foreign women/girls, promising them a better life in France.
Are they informed that this better life will be through sex work? If so then they aren't victims. And if they entered the country illegally they broke the law as much as the "recruiters" who helped them cross it. As such it should not matter if they came to France (for example) for sex work, domestic or agricultural labor or anything else.
Among those recruiters, pseudo modeling agencies operating in ex Eastern Block nations. In Sub Sahara Africa, these women are recruited under the promise of a wealthy French family hiring them "au pair", granting housing, food and a salary. To include the possibility they may even be able to get an education. Of course, upon their arrival, they are "greeted" by pimps who will exploit them for sex trafficking.
And if that takes place the parties responsible should be prosecuted. But I do not see what is gained by prosecuting customers. Or by assuming that if there are victims of trafficking among sex workers that all sex workers must be somehow 'victims'.
Human trafficking is intense in the Western world. The way to fight it is to deprive those organized rings from their financial resources. Financial resources being the customers.
No, the way to fight it is to bring the industry into broad daylight. Organized crime ran the alcohol industry during the prohibition but it isn't involved with alcohol now. Why? Because the industry is above board because alcohol is legal now.
It was not that hard to connect those dots, Derec.
There is more than one way to connect them. I prefer to connect them in the way that doesn't result in a net loss of individual freedom.
You strike me as someone who is totally unaware as to how human trafficking works. How French internal organized prostitution rings will operate and where and why. Of course I am a reasonable person who understands that you are certainly not expected to be INFORMED as I am regarding the intensity of human trafficking reflected among the high number of prostitutes of foreign origin on the French territory.
None of what you said here disproves my statement about a sex worker being foreign born not being the same as her being a victim of trafficking.
If a woman moves to France (perhaps even as a child) and takes up prostitution at some later time she would be counted as a "foreign born sex worker".
If a woman is a sex worker in her native country and decides to move to France because of better earning potential she would be counted as a "foreign born sex worker".
Yes neither one would be a victim of trafficking.
I would not expect you to be able to access the data (or even be interested in doing your own home work on that specific) since it concerns a foreign nation you do not appear to be familiar with, considering your initial comment regarding France, I am replying to.
Not being able to read French being another obstacle. Yet data would not change my fundamental points.
Considering that the motivation in France was based on undermining human trafficking resulting in the sexual exploitation of a high number of foreign born and imported women/girls, I have no idea why you would want to legalize such human trafficking.
I do not want to legalize human trafficking and the French law is doing much more than going after human trafficking.
Again, the 90% of those sex workers are not working under the rosy conditions of "consenting adults".
That certainly doesn't follow from them being foreign born (and I still doubt the percentage is that high). A sex worker could be foreign born and still be a fully consenting adult.
Are you or not going to acknowledge that reality?
No, as it is based on a faulty equation of "foreign born" with "victim of human trafficking".
http://www.west-info.eu/french-prostitution-figures/report-287/
I know...it is in French. Maybe can you use your google translator so you may be given a reality check as to the actual status of those foreign import prostitutes in France?
I do not read French and reading auto-translated stuff is barely better. I would like to know, what is the position of this west-info.eu outfit? Are they equating all prostitution with "trafficking" and all sex workers with "victims"?