IMHO black eye for oregon

LoneStarDawg

Former Oregon House Speaker and current Clackamas Community College board member Dave Hunt has been arrested and charged by Portland police in an undercover sex traffic sting operation.
Hunt, a Democrat, voted for the 2011 bill that he is charged under.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/breaking-former-oregon-democrat-house-majority-speaker-arrested-human-sex-trafficking/

RaceBannon

I feel sorry for his brother Mike

YellowSnow

RaceBannon said:

I feel sorry for his brother Mike

HuskyJW

How many roses?

SFGbob

https://youtu.be/Me7o3IAD8uw

TheKobeStopper

Sex work is work.

hardhat

No wonder they want the police abolished

doogie

Figures you’d make a joke out of sex slavery.

Why is no one surprised?

Bendintheriver

People exactly like him were the main reason I quit the Governors office and got out of politics as a profession. Too many slime balls in OR and WA politics. If you aren't as slimy as them you get disillusioned real quick. The only good person I knew in Salem was the Governor himself.

trublue

Neil “the child molester” Goldschmidt?

Dr. John “this state is ungovernable” Kitzhaber?

I kid, I kid.

Prestonluv

Its was already black

Fire_Marshall_Bill

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

I feel sorry for his brother Mike

@PurpleBaze

Goduckies

Legalize prostitution and this goes away...

PurpleBaze

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

I feel sorry for his brother Mike

@PurpleBaze

@pawz

Doog_de_Jour

Goduckies said:

Legalize prostitution and this goes away...

Sadly I don’t think it does.

https://harvardcrcl.org/to-protect-women-legalize-prostitution/

https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-prostitution-increase-human-trafficking/

“It’s true that current efforts by various European countries to legalize prostitution have been far from perfect. In the Netherlands, certain components of the legislation, such as requiring sex workers to register and setting the minimum age for prostitution at 21, could drive more sex workers to illegal markets. Not only that, but studies indicate that legalizing prostitution can increase human trafficking. However, even those who are critical about legalizing prostitution can recognize the benefits that legislation can have on working conditions for sex workers.”

Goduckies

Seams pretty safe in Nevada

GreenRiverGatorz

Doog_de_Jour said:

Goduckies said:

Legalize prostitution and this goes away...

Sadly I don’t think it does.

https://harvardcrcl.org/to-protect-women-legalize-prostitution/

https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-prostitution-increase-human-trafficking/

“It’s true that current efforts by various European countries to legalize prostitution have been far from perfect. In the Netherlands, certain components of the legislation, such as requiring sex workers to register and setting the minimum age for prostitution at 21, could drive more sex workers to illegal markets. Not only that, but studies indicate that legalizing prostitution can increase human trafficking. However, even those who are critical about legalizing prostitution can recognize the benefits that legislation can have on working conditions for sex workers.”

A lot of freedom loving patriots such as myself like to draw a straight line between legalizing/decriminalizing and a reduction in the harmful impacts of whatever was legalized. E.g. marijuana - state legalizes it, cartels and street dealers are driven out of business. Win-win.

Admittedly, that doesn't appear to always hold up, and prostitution is a good example. Legalizing it just provides that much more cover for cheap sources of labor, i.e. sex slaves, and I don't know if there's a way around that without heavy government involvement in the trade. And I'm guessing a government bureau of sex workers whose job it is to verify the identities of sex workers is a political non-starter.

GreenRiverGatorz

Goduckies said:

Seams pretty safe in Nevada

It's not. They're a top 10 state in terms of instances of human trafficking.

EsophagealFeces

GreenRiverGatorz said:

Goduckies said:

Seams pretty safe in Nevada

It's not. They're a top 10 state in terms of instances of human trafficking.

That probably has more to do with all the drunk women making easier targets for abduction than the legality of sex work. Either way, I don’t think legalizing it is the answer.

Sledog

GreenRiverGatorz said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

Goduckies said:

Legalize prostitution and this goes away...

Sadly I don’t think it does.

https://harvardcrcl.org/to-protect-women-legalize-prostitution/

https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-prostitution-increase-human-trafficking/

“It’s true that current efforts by various European countries to legalize prostitution have been far from perfect. In the Netherlands, certain components of the legislation, such as requiring sex workers to register and setting the minimum age for prostitution at 21, could drive more sex workers to illegal markets. Not only that, but studies indicate that legalizing prostitution can increase human trafficking. However, even those who are critical about legalizing prostitution can recognize the benefits that legislation can have on working conditions for sex workers.”

A lot of freedom loving patriots such as myself like to draw a straight line between legalizing/decriminalizing and a reduction in the harmful impacts of whatever was legalized. E.g. marijuana - state legalizes it, cartels and street dealers are driven out of business. Win-win.

Admittedly, that doesn't appear to always hold up, and prostitution is a good example. Legalizing it just provides that much more cover for cheap sources of labor, i.e. sex slaves, and I don't know if there's a way around that without heavy government involvement in the trade. And I'm guessing a government bureau of sex workers whose job it is to verify the identities of sex workers is a political non-starter.

Uh no not entirely. Pot stores create an entire crime wave around them. They stack cash and get robbed, kidnapped, family kidnapped etc. Also they export their pot to illegal locals where they can sell it for much higher prices. you've just moved production into our country instead of it coming from Mexico and Canada.

WestlinnDuck

Sledog said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

Goduckies said:

Legalize prostitution and this goes away...

Sadly I don’t think it does.

https://harvardcrcl.org/to-protect-women-legalize-prostitution/

https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-prostitution-increase-human-trafficking/

“It’s true that current efforts by various European countries to legalize prostitution have been far from perfect. In the Netherlands, certain components of the legislation, such as requiring sex workers to register and setting the minimum age for prostitution at 21, could drive more sex workers to illegal markets. Not only that, but studies indicate that legalizing prostitution can increase human trafficking. However, even those who are critical about legalizing prostitution can recognize the benefits that legislation can have on working conditions for sex workers.”

A lot of freedom loving patriots such as myself like to draw a straight line between legalizing/decriminalizing and a reduction in the harmful impacts of whatever was legalized. E.g. marijuana - state legalizes it, cartels and street dealers are driven out of business. Win-win.

Admittedly, that doesn't appear to always hold up, and prostitution is a good example. Legalizing it just provides that much more cover for cheap sources of labor, i.e. sex slaves, and I don't know if there's a way around that without heavy government involvement in the trade. And I'm guessing a government bureau of sex workers whose job it is to verify the identities of sex workers is a political non-starter.

Uh no not entirely. Pot stores create an entire crime wave around them. They stack cash and get robbed, kidnapped, family kidnapped etc. Also they export their pot to illegal locals where they can sell it for much higher prices. you've just moved production into our country instead of it coming from Mexico and Canada.

All that was happening before pot legalization.