So, let me see if I understand this.. there is a legal market... and some of the suppliers to that market are illegal.. so rather than go after the illegal suppliers, the government want to shut the market down? Makes total sense to me - not! The market will be driven underground, all suppliers will become illegal, and plod will have way too much to do rounding up all the previously perfectly legal suppliers to focus on the trafficking - which will probably increase in an illegal market scenario. Yes.. I can see... politicians are worth their weight in gold... fools gold.
Looking at Australia, they decriminalised prostitution in the form of agency/independent outcalls, incalls and brothels. Street prostitution is still illegal (although from what I could gather when I was there, tolerated). The result is that the industry cleaned up its act.. I used to work for one of the state health and safety departments and they would send workplace inspectors to brothels to inspect they were meeting requirements, which included hygiene, environmental, security and employee/WG welfare. Apparently, there was a pecking order as to which inspectors got those gigs. They also focused more time on illegal establishments - not to prosecute - but to ensure the welfare of the SPs, as they are often under stress, drugged up, and.... trafficked (usually from Asia). In other words, they realised the market was there and wasn't going away, so they decided to make it safe for SP and punter alike and focused on finding the trafficked and otherwise illegally exploited. ALthough they wouldn't go after the SPs, they would go after the traffickers/Sergeis.
OK.. I think on the whole, SPs in Australia are more transactional during the punt than the UK (non-Roms.. never had one), but the experience is much less seedy. An example of one I used to go to, the Pink Palace is here:
External Link/Members Only. It had a car park and discrete entrance and was all very classy.. with a lounge to sit and drink (nonalcpholic drinks) with the girls and get to see if they really floated your boat before committing. There are others, that are from converted warehouses in industrial areas (e.g. Club Hallam - look them up in Google Maps), to within office/shops in the CBD (e.g.
External Link/Members Only. As far as I am aware, they are not allowed to be within residential areas, although a few were on the outskirts of them. The good thing about their location is that more often than not, even where there is no car park, they are relatively discrete as not many people are around...
This is an example where there has been some success in addressing the trafficking issues - but as said... there will always be traffiking where money can be made and no doubt there is trafficking into Australia today.
On having a trafficking thread, the difference to a BB thread is that with BB, either the SP specifies it in their ad (likes, description, or FAQ), or it is reported in a review ("she offered me BB").. etc. But with trafficking, unless you have some evidence, it is just a guess - It may be just the SP hates doing it, but has to for the money (whether that is to just live, pay off a debt, or drugs, etc), rather than actually being trafficked. So, you may unwittingly cut off the SP's income (or reduce it) when they really need it. Alternatively, as we tend to name the SPs in the review, if their Sergei happens to read it, she may well be punished for making it a little too obvious (even if it wasn't her that was making it obvious). Although, I would be surprised if this forum isn't checked by law enforcement occasionally, so maybe a suspected trafficked thread is not a bad idea?
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Forgot to mention, it may be that 80% of Roms are trafficked, but what percentage of the SP population is made up of Roms? It is still an issue that has to be addressed - but if, say 10% of SPs are Roms, then as a percentage of the market, it is not that big a deal to shut it down... it would be far better (and money better spent) to focus plod on sorting out the Rom issue.
