The UK's biggest ever investigation of sex trafficking failed to find a single person who had forced anybody into prostitution in spite of hundreds of raids on sex workers in a six-month campaign by government departments, specialist agencies and every police force in the country.
Well they were clearly doing a piss poor job. I could walk out of my house right now and find two or three women I know that are forced to prostitute. They'd never tell a SW or Police, they 'love' them and are certainly dependent on them.
But then I've worked in homelessness for years and know more workers than you've had hot dinners. I've seen them injecting heroin into their necks, seen then crying and ashamed, seen them wishing they didn't have to go out but they still go. And I've known one that died from this. Spoken to her sister.
I've seen the kind of men who buy their bodies, read the 'bad dates' file with story after story of men who beat, rob or rape them. Seen them trawling around late at night looking for young, addicted, desperate women. And yes, I would criminalise those men. But not the women who are prostituting..