From our perspective, Google's support of JUST those prohibitionists posing as anti-human trafficking organizations is as though it was supporting the anti- gay/lesbian/transgendered groups of yesteryear when those groups were promoting the bigotry and ignorance which claimed all gays were pedophiles, all lesbians were made that way by child sexual abuse and transgendered persons and gays could be 'cured' by a good dose of heterosexual love.
Clearly there is another side to the issue of prostitution vs. sex trafficking, but unfortunately we are out financed by those whose disdain for consenting adult commercial sex have confused the issue of true trafficking and consenting adult sexual activity.
No one wants to abolish all human trafficking more than sex worker activists. It will no more happen by abolishing all sex work than it would by abolishing all domestic servitude, agriculture, garment manufacturing or any of the other areas of labor into which millions of people are trafficked every year.
Because we know how to spot true victims of sex slavery and we are willing to turn in those who use force or abuse us, we are the ones who ought to be funded so that we can in fact fight for our rights and the rights of those who are victims.
A government that cannot tell the difference between a consenting adult who chooses to engage in commercial sex and someone who is a victim of ANY form of human trafficking is not a government that can really solve the problem of human trafficking, anymore than it could help victims of rape or pedophilia if it was unable to distinguish between victims of rape, child sexual abuse and those who engaged in NON commercial consenting adult sex.
Source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/google-donates-115-million-to-the-fight-against-modern-slavery/3497
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