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(FOX NEWS) – A New York Times opinion columnist warned against the “liberal” push to legalize prostitution in a recent article, telling the story of Melanie Thompson, a victim of rape and child sex trafficking.
“We met, and she filled me in on her bumpy journey,” liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote of his interview with Thompson, detailing “her campaign against what she sees as misguided liberalism that would legalize pimping.”
“Melanie, now 27, warns that the result of full decriminalization, including allowing pimps and brothels, would be more trafficking of victims who are overwhelmingly Black and brown, or coming out of foster care, or L.G.B.T.Q. youth or others who are marginalized. Indeed, one large global study found that legalization is associated with more trafficking, not less.”
“You feel like damaged goods,” Thompson said of her years of trauma from the sex trade. “You also internalize the shame people put on you.”
Thompson also rejected the arguments of college professors and students who said that sex work could be empowering.
“In college, [Thompson] often found herself the odd woman out. In classes, there would be discussions of the sex trade, with affluent students or professors speaking of sex work for consenting adults as empowering, while that did not remotely ring true for Melanie,” Kristof wrote.
Kristof, summarizing Thompson’s arguments, wrote that exploitation was the rule and not the exception in the sex trade.
