Forty-nine of their pimps were charged
Lots of “sex positive” guys here.
York Regional Police say an undercover operation has resulted in the arrests of dozens of men who sought to buy sex with children over the internet.
“We stopped 104 men from purchasing 104 children,” Det. Sgt. Thai Truong told a news conference Friday.
The four-year operation, dubbed Project Raphael, zeroed in on men who sought sex with girls they believed were between 13 and 16 years old.
How prudish and judgmental to think men shouldn’t be trying to fuck girls of 13.
The men, who ranged in age from 21 to 71, offered to pay between $80 and $300 for encounters of between 30 and 60 minutes with the children.
The children have agency you know. They could buy some really nice clothes with that money.
Officers posing as underage sex workers chatted online with the men, who were then charged with offences including communicating for the purposes of obtaining sexual services of a person under 18, and internet luring.
“When they arrived to essentially complete the transaction, they were arrested,” Truong said.
No tight little child pussies for them. Sad.
Truong said the investigation also brought police into contact with 85 girls who were involved in the sex trade online. Many of them showed signs of physical abuse.
“The world of human trafficking is an ugly world,” he said. “We see a lot of lives destroyed.”
Forty-nine of their pimps were charged, Truong said.
Ahem. We call pimps “sex worker assistants” now. Check your privilege.
Hey! How can you know they don’t identify as pimps? Check you own privilege. /s
No, we call them “sex workers” too. That way we can be told to “listen to sex workers” and never be sure if we’re listening to the exploited or the exploiter. Clever, innit?
Sex work facilitators, surely.
It’s just really important to distinguish between children and adults, especially adult women who have so often been infantilised in patriarchal societies. Whatever your views on prostitution, the idea that women need the same legal protections as children can only lead to bad outcomes for women, I think.
And you can believe that sex work – for adults – should be legal without thinking it prudish or judgmental to argue that men shouldn’t use prostitutes. The argument for legality is not an endorsement of sex work. This argument never seems to end, but it seems to me pretty basic. The argument of Amnesty and others that sex work should be legal is that that would allow workers to benefit from the protection of the law and to escape persecution and extortion from the police. Nobody thinks the outcome would be a perfect situation without abuses but the abuse would be mitigated.
Surely it is judgemental to say that men shouldn’t have sex with prostitutes. You are making a judgement about ethics and it really is OK to do that.