legalisation does help to fight the criminal exploitive networks behind prostitution but it does not prevent them

i’m from a central european country where prostitution is legal, but we still have a lot of human trafficking going on.

in this globalised capitalist world it is always cheaper and more profitable to traffic persons from the global south than setting up a legal business that pays taxes and social welfare deductions.

the problem is that these prostituted people aren’t even in a legal residency situation, so they couldn’t work in this sector legally (if they even chose to, a lot of them are trapped by false promises and once they here it’s too late for them to escape)

it’s a vicious circle