• De_Narm@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Does it though? There are plenty of countries with legal prostitution and I’ve never seen any statistics about illegal prostitution being on the rise there.

    It’s one of those claims both sides could make and actually believe in. There might even be data for both sides, given enough cherry-picking that is.

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      17 days ago

      It’s been matter of fact for over a decade LINK, they looked at large scale trends in 150 countries and they controlled for variables such as higher rates of finding criminals by examining the supplier countries as well as the countries that legalize prostitution and found increases across the board.

      Legal prostitution leads to increased human trafficking.

      If a side claims that science is wrong then it’s not the side you want to be on.