Moral Panic Over Sex Work

Police often use “sex trafficking” and prostitution interchangeably. That’s what happed in the Robert Kraft case, says reporter Elizabeth Nolan Brown.
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Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, was caught in a “sex trafficking” sting.
“They [law enforcement] had all of these big announcements at first saying that … these women were being forced there and they weren’t allowed to leave” Brown explains to John Stossel.
But now prosecutors in the Kraft case concede that there was no trafficking.
That’s usually the case when it comes to “sex trafficking” busts says Brown: “I'd say 99% of the headlines are not true.”
Brown covered a similar case in Seattle where the cops claimed to have busted a sex trafficking ring. In a press conference King County Sheriff John Urquhart said, “These women are true victims.”
But the court documents “actually paint a very, very different story” Brown points out. “No one has been charged with human trafficking in that case.”
Yet politicians and the media often exaggerate the frequency of trafficking. Congresswoman Ann Wagner claims, “Right now almost 300,000 American children are at risk”.
That 300,000 number is repeated constantly in the media. The number is based on a study that has been disavowed by the lead author Richard Estes. Brown says, “many people debunked the study and say ‘this is just a total bull crap number’.”
Brown adds, “when we have these exaggerated numbers, it forces people to go into this crazy emergency moral panic mode that ends up not helping the actual problem that we have.”

[@DavidPimentel]

If it cannot be taxed, then it must be stopped!

[@carlsnyder4833]

That is no joke man

[@boslyporshy6553]

@Time Traveller Herald of the Patriotic order There is no legal way to regulate bartering.

[@bagamias-hula]

True.

[@coralofyt]

@Time Traveller Herald of the Patriotic order NEW ZEALAND DECRIMINALIZE SEX WORK IN 03 & IF THE SEX WORKERS WORK IN BROTHELS THAY PAY TAX & IF THE MAKE A LOT THEY PAY TAX!! THE ONEs WHO DON'T PAY TAX ARE LIVING HAND TO MOUTH SO THEY DO NOT MAKE THE REQUIRED AMOUNT TO PAY ANYWAY!!

[@SaltyPug]

The government. Always wanting to make sure they get their cut.

[@ethanlewis7635]

Hate when pizza hut screws up my order and sends me a small Haitian boy instead of my Hawaiin pizza.

[@boba8379]

Mike Stoklasa Lol

[@t.c.8697]

Lol, best wishes

[@VegetoStevieD]

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[@LaborHours]

LOL!

[@IM-bq7ep]

I was thinking of making the same type of joke. "Can I have a small Asian with extra Mexican on the side.

[@losthomas7589]

“I’m from the government and I’m here to help” The nine scariest words in the world.

[@ReformedSooner24]

TaosDad31 Yep. There’s a difference between “I’m from the National Guard and I’m here to help” and “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”

[@LavaCanyon]

"to" is a terrifying word.

[@paulcolburn3855]

I love how when they interviewed the prostitutes who admit that they enjoy their "work" the one said both conservatives AND liberals are BOTH wrong. Just leave me alone and let me do my work. In Europe, feminism has succeeded in adapting the "Swedish Model" for prostitution. Keep it illegal but criminalize ONLY the Johns. Women escape all accountability under this model. How it works is the cops can arrest and prosecute any man who agrees to pay for s3x, but the prostitutes selling themselves, that is not illegal. So the prostitutes don't have to worry about being arrested and getting a record. They are immune from prosecution based on their gender. Its very feminist actually. I could see that model being adopted here to keep both liberals and conservatives happy. Really, they only want to go after the Johns (and maybe the pimps) anyway.

[@salvagemonster3612]

What about “ I’m a serial killer and gunna eat you”. Now that is much scarier to me

[@JellyAntz]

@@salvagemonster3612 The government is much more powerful and threatening than a mere single serial killer

[@seeourboughgur3690]

I don't remember Johnny Carson lecturing me like Trevor Noah or Seth Meyers seem to feel the need to do.

[@camberwellcarrot420]

Johnny was smart and hilarious. Noah and Meyers aren't. I don't understand who watches them.

[@thousandaireradio3199]

Who are these people that you speak of? I know who Johnny Carson is.

[@jphforex2151]

Seth Douchebag and the rest of the morons are told to do this - total derps. Unwatchable. Idiots - useful...as Vlad Lenin would say. Problem is.....they spew "facts" and the sheep eat it up.

[@tolfan4438]

Yeah that's exactly right. But I do remember him calling the governor of California a weirdo which he was and California's just now in the last election re-elected the weirdo they're never going to learn out there

[@MikeTheD]

I sincerely don’t understand it, it’s some kinda moralizing affirmation with maybe a mild chuckle, at best. But even that chuckle is accompanied by an agreeing nod

[@stoicforall]

“Being arrested doesn’t help you” end of discussion.

[@kennethbowers2897]

If they arrested you and put you in a jail but not give you a criminal record it wouldn't be bad. Sadly people with drug addictions are treated the same way, arrested and given criminal records when they're the ones who can't help the problem at hand.

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

Same with drugs

[@rayalbertogutierrezbalanza4206]

Not to you, but it does help the sistem

[@mastersparkeeone]

But, but she just said they don't need help. So they do or don't need help?

[@robm6510]

But it helps me though. I'm not out to help you, you already fucked yourself up on your own. I'm just keeping you from fucking up what I have going on too.

[@Vlabar]

Once again thank-you Mr. Stossel for actually doing some honest journalsim and getting to the facts. We need more like you.

[@CaptCutler]

50,000+ kids a year go missing. Trafficking is a massive issue. Stossel has missed the mark on this.

[@brettmiddleton7949]

Check out Gardner Goldsmith on MRCTV. If he had the kind of budget and exposure Mr. Stossel does, he'd rank right up there.

[@lights473]

@@CaptCutler you really didn't understand the point John Stossel was making here.

[@CaptCutler]

@@lights473 I did. You dont understand the point I'm making, so you projected. Happens all the time on the internet.

[@lights473]

@@CaptCutler if you actually understood the point, then you would understand that he hasn't dismissed the idea of women and girls being forced into sex trafficking.

[@5thcorps]

Unfortunately Mr. Stossel you sir are a dinosaur. Honest reporting and allowing the viewer to make up their own mind are becoming things of the past. You're one of the last purveyors of true reporting. Please NEVER retire!

[@brookingsbeachcomber]

one of the few we have left.

[@namnack]

Uhm.. How was this piece not one sided?

[@5thcorps]

@@namnack He presented current laws and statutes and rebutted them. And he did it logically. No insults or talking points just facts.

[@namnack]

@@5thcorps No he didn't, no idea what you are babbling about. He is talking about labels put on headlines. My contention is with the stupid comments that claim this is good journalism, for which you have to have a brain the size of a pea, to actually believe this was the case. Did no one notice they didn't even bother to mention the more actual figure relating to child exploitation per annum? Don't you people feel this instinctive sense of vile when you hear this politicised report about something they try to portray as non existent, just to vomit at the opposing team? Maybe you have to be American not to be able to see it, could be...

[@5thcorps]

@@namnack GET A LIFE and stop playing the victim

[@arthurfonzarelli9828]

Sex is the only thing that you can give away for free but the minute you charge someone for it then it becomes a crime

[@stub4488]

Marriage is a crime!

[@princeroyal195]

Defecation is the only thing that you can give away for free but the minute you charge someone for it then it becomes a crime

[@kantill]

@Jay M sorry but yours doesn't have two people giving consent, that's what makes it a crime.

[@keithschwartz2858]

Jay M. Wow, that’s stupid.

[@arthurfonzarelli9828]

@Todd Brill excellent point

[@LucifersDeathSquad]

Basically boils down to , who did he piss off .

[@Gantiz]

It's the Patriots' owner... so, basically, all of America....

[@anonymouscommenter7978]

Yosef Yitzchak Lopez kraft is a democrat

[@nicks7768]

Jets, Bills, Dolphins fans.

[@RickDeckardMemories]

No. Cops do it all over the country, ruining countless lives of professional hookers and clients - no matter who they are, big fish or small. Of course cops are happy to get the big fish, this video explains why - cops love the publicity.

[@gregw8232]

Pissed off the LA Rams. Rams had the refs in their pocket against the Saints to get to the super bowl.

[@YunisRajab]

The worst thing about this is that it makes people not take real cases seriously. Same thing with me too and black lives matter. You can't keep crying wolf without consequences.

[@pep590]

Black lives matter? Those racist bigots.

[@bruceyyyyy]

Robert Kraft is worth more than the GDP of Monaco. He was happily married for years before he lost his wife to cancer. Based on the first two things I can't imagine finding a mate would be difficult. He instead chose to have his butler drive him to a sketchy massage parlor in the family dollar parking lot so he could get a $60 handy. You know what I say to all this? Good for Robert Kraft.

[@crayoncer]

I think being rich makes finding a good (authentic) mate impossible. I don't think anybody cares about anybody anymore, wives are all hookers and husbands are all Johns.

[@sdvten]

He figured out he was better off spending the "$60" than going through that shit show again.

[@joshglover2370]

😂 Hell yeah! 😂

[@ghostinc7]

know what they say. You pay them to leave! Not for the sex!

[@superchuck3259]

So he needed a wife-sat-tute to take half his money!

[@DarkMice5529]

Wait… So you’re telling me the main stream media & celebrities are lying to me? I highly doubt that! (sarcasm)

[@superchuck3259]

If you don't believe it all, you are crazy!

[@No__18]

Your dumb (Sarcasm)

[@DarkMice5529]

Fidel Franco 🙄 you’re* dumb! (Zero sarcasm)

[@joyceb8407]

Well you see the celebs(rich ones) need those tax shelters and starting foundations (like Hillary) helps to shuffle their bucks around...plus then they can draw salaries and give their friends nice paying jobs etc. Most times just another money scam and publicity stunt to make them look good.

[@kathleenkeller5375]

🤣

[@marko6695]

So much for women's choice!

[@toasterbathboi6298]

*its only the woman’s right to choose when the government can tax it somehow

[@jonathanshepard1517]

@Sasha Braus Maybe you are but I'm not. And neither are my friends and family and most people I know.

[@crossofintimidation]

Prostitution will never be legalized and/or regulated across the United States. Washington D.C. has the highest number of cases in the country. If it were regulated, all the VIP clients would have their names publicized. They wouldn't be able to appeal to their Christian base with that info floating around.

[@jonathangrey2183]

Consenting adults can do whatever they want in the bedroom unless they do it for money. Ridiculous.

[@grantarmbruster6591]

@ls7orBust2 Um how about NO

[@TkerIsAPimp]

@ls7orBust2 ur fuckin sick man. Parents have an obligation of protecting a child's innocence.

[@robm6510]

@ls7orBust2 I'll take that as satirical.

[@oscaralvarado2899]

@ls7orBust2 pointing out the irony of the OP. Kids sell stuff to each other all the time. Why can't they sell themselves to each other?

[@lolwtnick4362]

interesting take. define "consenting adults" with that and new laws i could go sleep with a 14 yr old in Alabama right now. these lines people draw are thinner than they think.

[@theItalianshamrock]

Stossel is the man and mustache America needs

[@xyula8594]

Amy Schumer definitely knows how easy it is to order a pizza

[@AtheistThatsATheist]

I thought way more people would have made a similar comment. Thumbs up from me

[@mae2759]

hahahahaa!!

[@Paul-ue7fo]

It would be legal if government could find a way to tax it.

[@loveofdanteandbice2697]

lol In Germany prostitutes pay income tax and there is a so called ''pleasure tax'', so yeah, now I'm wondering what the motivation was here to make it legal ...

[@user-td7xf3gz4l]

Ridiculous

[@SaltyPug]

Your President u mean, a brothel?

[@demam4648]

Like strip clubs & brothels.

[@oldrepublican4121]

If prostitution was legal they would have an easier time cracking down on drugs and the actual slave trade. Business licenses, OSHA, mandatory blood tests, police protection. Prostitutes would no longer be the most sought after drug runner for dealers. They would have legal protection from potential pimps. They could work from secure facilities. Police would be able to immediately run a search to find the business license. If they don't find one they would immediately know it is not a legal operation and something else illegal is also going on.

[@MattPryze]

And we can order one with our pizza

[@oldrepublican4121]

@@MattPryze The point was to have a red light district, to keep things separate as opposed to the local street-corner..

[@paris466]

Stop trying to inject logic into the discussion. It hurts the brains of the feeble-minded.

[@brettmiddleton7949]

Precisely! And it's not only safer for the workers, it's safer for the customers. Customers don't have to risk going to seedy locations and risk getting rolled by the sex worker or her pimp, or picking up an STD, etc.

[@SaltyPug]

The only problem I foresee in your idea is...the “Johns”. The ones who are prostituting, that are drug addicts...who are just trying to make enough to buy their next high...are high risk individuals for being victimized or even killed. Majority of these so-called ‘serial killers’, do go after these types of women bc they’re easy targets. They’ll get into a car w anyone for that $20. Then end up dead over some maniacal crazed man that thrives on his “high”. Killing ppl. Psychopathy is a very real deal. Although, I believe a lot of these women are in the trade by choice...many do have pimps that make it hard for them to actually get away by degrading their self worth. They don’t believe they deserve any better. There is sex trafficking, is it an epidemic as they proclaim...idk but like they said...MSM blows a lot outta proportion also. I’d also like to see a true sex trafficked victim, with free, unaccompanied access to a phone where they could DL Ashton’s app to “save them”. 3,000? 🙄 riiiight. Not buying that one. I agree with a lot of what u said, it’s just the other aspect of the trade that makes a lot potential high risk, victims.

[@b.5191]

Government needs to get out of the business or what you put IN your body! #weWantMoreStossel

[@dand33911]

Or what you put in someone else's body 😉

[@b.5191]

Yes, of course. You can put whatever you want into your body but you don't have the right to tell others what they can't put in their bodies.

[@user-td7xf3gz4l]

@@dand33911 no

[@EmceeLorder]

Not until they abolish the welfare state. Until they do that, then I don't think people are serious about this concept.

[@dand33911]

@@user-td7xf3gz4l Prostitution should be decriminalized. What is your argument against that? Now that you know the "sex trafficking" argument is a scheme.

[@ghostnoodle9721]

Ya I rather spend 500$ to get my rocks off then half of everything I own... Personal preference

[@faith_alone]

Loser

[@RoyalDog214]

Holy shit, how do I donate to John Stossel? His journalism is remarkable and entertaining to watch!

[@mrbojangles7504]

Definitely need to differentiate between pedo traffickers and consenting adults. This could turn into a witch hunt. Great videos sir.

[@truthof7382]

Mr Bojangles I agree totally, but sounds like it may already be a witch hunt.

[@mrbojangles7504]

@@truthof7382 Afraid so...

[@SuperAtheist]

Does anyone think that prosecutors will care about the truth? Power has no use for truth.

[@noahpartic7586]

Correct. Authorities don't care about the truth or consequences because they are both.

[@ronnie_5150]

It reminds me of when cops inflate the "Street value" of drugs they have seized in order to justify the amount of time and money they spent on the investigation.

[@hshs5756]

Picking through trash? Following women around in grocery stores watching them buy condoms? Who's going to rescue these cops from this kind of degrading work?

[@superchuck3259]

How many of the cops got BJs from the gals that were told to not quit that location weeks before the raid.

[@optimisticallyskeptical1842]

The biggest problem with constantly exaggerating numbers and occurrences is that over time people become acclimated to such things and begin to loose interest when it does occur. It is related to that story about the boy who called wolf so often that when one actually did appear, no one answered the call for wolf.

[@jayoliver3734]

“The road to hell is paved with Good Intentions”

[@evelynn4273]

This is really about being able to tax monetary transactions.

[@simmerchester9252]

Didn't Ashton Kutcher party with Demi Moore's barely legal daughter and her friends?

[@torlumnitor8230]

He didn't pay for it. That's the difference.

[@grancito2]

Has been acting people have to get their faces in the public view, by being controversial, otherwise they are completely forgotten.

[@LeFatalpotato]

3:50-4:06 is the perfect criticism of left and right of USA

[@vitodelorto1796]

According to the news, you can go to a gun show or get on line and buy a mchine gun without an ID😂

[@beng4151]

And as sad as it is, most news people (and celebrities) wouldn't be able to pick out a machine gun from a group of guns. They don't even understand semi-automatic versus automatic.

[@dhgmrz17]

@@beng4151 The big scary black one! Yes that one, *Points to AR-15* Ban it! The small handgun that can be easily concealed, yeah you can keep that one.

[@homewall744]

Be the adult -- keep government authority to a minimum like our Constitution attempted to create.

[@Strelnikov10]

I can't wait to hit the local brothel with the Stoss. Legend.

[@Strelnikov10]

@Brutus Tan HAHA! I want a framed copy for my office.

[@Motoboo_Marine]

Videos like these are just additions to the pile of evidence that just because you're in a position of government or are famous, doesn't mean you're an expert on everything. Thanks John.

[@austinnelson5529]

Makes you wonder why he's not doing 20/20 anymore

[@andrewgleason6680]

Thanks John. Good content. The best way to protect sex workers is to legalize it.

[@MagicCookieGaming]

*cough* Amsterdam did it right *cough*

[@superchuck3259]

@3MM4 P33L Higher profits means hotter girls. So you make it just like a minimum wage job and what do you think the girls will look like?

[@SaltyPug]

Charles Granata that’s what “escorts” are for. But u cannot protect sex workers. Maybe the ones who aren’t drug addicted, who will do anything for $20 to buy their next “high”. Til they get into that car with that guy who murders prostitutes...bc they’re EASY targets. (And by easy...it wasn’t to be punny, seriously).

[@oscaralvarado2899]

Why do we want to protect them? If they are choosing a dangerous and seedy lifestyle, let them face the consequences.

[@andrewgleason6680]

Oscar Alvarado society has a need for their work, weather want to admit it or not. Where there is demand, there is supply. Now, we can either choose to ignore it or criminalize it and have sex workers that work and live underground in terrible conditions, or we can accept the fact that this happens and try to minimize the bad attributes such as sex trafficking, STD’s, abuse. Anytime you can shine a light on these situations and make everything more transparent it is better for everyone by prohibiting it you actually make it worse. And if it’s legal, maybe it’s not a shady/seedy lifestyle after all. At the end of the day sex workers are people like you or I and they deserve basic human rights.

[@spinderella3602]

HUGE scam. Most of the time CONSENTING adults are targeted. I know. I was in the business. John Stossel was supposed to interview me YEARS ago.

[@dakotablackstone4486]

Legalize it!

[@ryank8261]

I volunteered at a center for adolescent girls who had all been either drugged or blackmailed into prostitution and not a single one wanted to be freed or returned to their parents despite being minors. What about them?

[@t.c.8697]

Agreed. That's my problem. It's 1 thing if it's adults, but we are seeing underage girls especially those addicted to drugs & those being smuggled here illegally. I felt the video didn't cover everything. We know kids are being raped & abused on the border. Best wishes

[@jasonb1488]

It's true in Mexico 1000nds of women go missing every day kids too

[@votekyle3000]

1:47 I’ve got 5 places that deliver and I live in a small town. Are you sure?

[@richardclark4383]

I really hope you're talking about pizzas lol

[@votekyle3000]

Richard Clark hahahahaha

[@IM-bq7ep]

I am looking for that damn number on grub hub but cant find it

[@loganferti278]

There should be a law saying Hollywood ppl and celebrities cannot have a say in social or political issues. I'm fed up with these ppl, really. They criticize, lecture, patronize as if they weren't fucked up in the first place. Their sense of superiority is shameful.

[@stub4488]

Sad truth is all women are like that! It's always a transaction!

[@jackmcdaniel1548]

So you have personally dealt with ALL of the approximately 4 billion women on earth?

[@grantarmbruster6591]

@@jackmcdaniel1548 what is it if it is not a transaction?

[@goldfishi5776]

Jack McDaniel oh then tell us that women don’t seek a sense of financial security in a partner.. You can’t argue against human nature.

[@jaycewilkinson6221]

Someone’s salty

[@jonathangrey2183]

🚨 MGTOW Alert! 🚨

[@fixedguitar47]

Every women has her price Every man has his breaking point

[@phoebelee55]

I was happily in the business for many years and knew many many MANY women from all walks of life and let me tell you I didn’t meet one not one that was being forced, or trafficked... Also never came across a child, ever

[@pep590]

I agree. I've been to many places all over the US, never saw a child and most are in their 40's. Total BS.

[@oscaralvarado2899]

You fucking simpletons. You've paid for sex for years and years???? Sad, truly sad.

[@Yugetubes]

@@oscaralvarado2899 I'm betting they were selling.

[@oscaralvarado2899]

@@Yugetubes 🤣🤣

[@gypsyrosegypsyrose2531]

i was trafficked as a child and every time the police became involved i would be locked away in juvenile detention center i am not even kidding you. it was insane and it was punishing a child for being used by adults, yet the adults were let go and i was treated like i did something wrong.

[@mjolnircarlssen4211]

Very interesting investigation! This is the first time I’ve heard this side of the story. John Stossel: A+ as always.

[@LaborHours]

This is why Stossel is my favorite news man, he tells the story that no one else will.

[@ValdVincent]

Yeah, but human trafficking is also a real thing, mostly in the 3rd world. [and some other places]

[@willyvanilly]

Sooo... What's the real issue? Normally these videos point me the right direction, now I'm more confused...

[@oscaralvarado2899]

☝️ that comment.

[@SnoBordnKikAzz]

John Stossel may be the single best journalist right now. He digs for the real answers and plays devil's advocate when needed.

[@jefferynordgulen4436]

30 years ago I read a book called "Ain't nobody's business if I do". I don't know if it can still be found but it really gave me a lot to think about.

[@hickorytomato8904]

So if 300,000 isn't the real number then what is it. Don't claim to debunk a figure without providing what you believe is the real one otherwise you come off as manipulative

[@ishygddtfr]

Where's the other side? Normally we get a representative from the opposing argument but instead we get 3 people advocating for, given your take, prostitution. I would have loved to hear the cops' take on this, given the effects prostitution has had on societies in the past, and the new age of policing rendering more rehabilitation as opposed to punishment.

[@briandamage5677]

Wow, this is rather enlightening. Thanks again, Mr. Stossel.

[@joebrady9575]

Thank you for doing this!!

[@fuckyou1p8r487p93q47]

"Stossle Ruins Everything" would make a way better show than Adam.

[@Bittzen]

Adam gets things wrong sometimes because he doesn't use economics like stossel does

[@fuckyou1p8r487p93q47]

@@Bittzen he gets things wrong because he's full of shit. Did you watch the electoral college episode? Or the gun episode that devolved into a race baiting cry session?

[@IM-bq7ep]

That beta male sudo intelectual POS

[@noahpartic7586]

Adam & John need to do at least 1 ruin together👍.

[@contactyourcongressmen5638]

To suggest that there's no moral issue because the pimps that abused and manipulated these women don't get arrested is fallacious.

[@markdowling287]

Contact your congressmen Just say that it’s all the pimps faults as a bail bondsman I have to say that’s not necessarily true I don’t like pimps and hookers but I’ve seen just as many hookers don’t know exactly what they’re doing and they are in it for the Benjamins

[@InternetMunchies]

So when woman manipulate men, which happens 24/7/365..should it be illegal?

[@contactyourcongressmen5638]

@@InternetMunchies I think people are brought into prostitution the same way slaves are brought into slavery. By breaking their will with abuse. If a women physically abuses a man, yes that is and ought to be illegal.

[@InternetMunchies]

@@contactyourcongressmen5638 I think prostitutes just like most homelessness..is a personal choice

[@InternetMunchies]

@@contactyourcongressmen5638 should women be able to sell pussy is the question..yes or no...words like pimp,and sex slave come with illegality

[@fireheaven2464]

Its like trying to treat a bug bite on your hand by sawing off your arm to make the itch stop

[@AryMir]

Great reporting John, as always. Keep bringing the TRUTH.

[@potlick18]

Actual sex trafficking is a serious problem in other countries but America has been fortunate for it to not be an epidemic.

[@westb1028]

One of the first times I disagree with you, overall. Regardless of whether they want to do it or not. It’s a practice that degrades the moral foundations of our society. Shouldn’t be happening.

[@Demonfireangel]

Just like drinking alcohol, right? And we tried to ban that. Look how well that turned out.

[@stansman5461]

I mean, pornography is the same and yet no one has a problem with that industry.

[@grancito2]

Get a brain, dating and marriage is prostitucion, just no direct cash exchange, except during the divorce transaction of the prostitucion. Even other primates are prostitutes, and exchange sex for food. You need to learn some logic, instead of regurgitating your indoctrinated bullshit.

[@samvimes9510]

_"It's as easy as ordering a pizza"_ Um...what?

[@davidh376]

Stossel is by far the best journalist. He is the last man standing when it comes to real journalism

[@louisnall3102]

Couldn't this be considered Unconstitutional? since people have the freedom to express their body how they please.

[@dand33911]

Jeff Epstein, Lolita Express. Nuff said.

[@dand33911]

@J H He didnt. Clinton did.

[@JD..........]

Couldn't just mention that prostituting is at least a bit immoral for balance?

[@DustyCowdog]

Great reporting as always.

[@stub4488]

Probably the worst Stossel clip I've seen...still scratching my head.

[@xxl96]

Why

[@ghostinc7]

This is the worst comment I have seen .. still scratching my nuts.

[@roderickwhitehead]

There are no victims, only volunteers.

[@freakinnuclearfantasy2511]

Damn, I never even thought of this. Thanks John!

[@JamesSmith-dn8lb]

They should "rescue" the pimps instead.

[@grantkeller8024]

All while promoting the hell out of homosexuality.

[@user-td7xf3gz4l]

Geez

[@mcmackattackify]

Very informative, great video!

[@DaleLClay]

This only one-sided story I have seen Stossel do so far, interesting.

[@coralofyt]

EVERYONE STOP SAY IF THE GOV COULD TAX IT THEN THEY WOULD LEGLIZ IT!! YOU DON'T KNOW HOW THE WAR ON SEX WORK IS!! TAX HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!! NEW ZEALAND DECRIMINALIZE SEX WORK IN 03 & IF THE SEX WORKERS WORK IN BROTHELS THAY PAY TAX & IF THE MAKE A LOT THEY PAY TAX!! THE ONEs WHO DON'T PAY TAX ARE LIVING HAND TO MOUTH SO THEY DO NOT MAKE THE REQUIRED AMOUNT TO PAY ANYWAY!!

[@tornmoto]

hmmm, never got notification for this one, John Y/T is tuning you out.

[@yngwievanhalen9640]

Moral panics are wrong. Doesn't even matter what it's about, it makes even the worst problems worse.

[@Eye_of_a_Texan]

I imagine that there is way more sex trafficking than this video suggests. The internet is lousy with stories of women who have been trafficked. However, it's impossible to separate the regular prostitution from trafficking, because both are criminal, both are reported on before people are arraigned, and the fact that we can't seem to blame a woman for anything. They never seem to report on the prostitutes, just the busted customers.

[@Greg_Rock]

I love this video! Great work

[@PathinAZ]

Inciting panic for monetary gain? Who knew..............wait............I did..nothing new. Same game's been played as long as I can remember. Great report as usual from John.

[@truthof7382]

My favorite is when he talked about the rub and tug in FL they Kraft was caught at was under surveillance for months, even following the girls to the grocery store. So they let these “girls being held against their will” keep working while you watched it go on for months??? Later they said oops, uh no they weren’t being held against their will.

[@patrickx9409]

I'm glad to see John Stossel stand up against this form of government tyranny and expose the propaganda about human trafficking. We the people need to fight to legalize prostitution and society needs to recognize the difference between prostitution and actual REAL nonconsensual human trafficking.

[@ratwood001]

My boss traffics my body to lift heavy objects all day long. He literally traffics me to the site where I am told exactly what to do...

[@BeachsideHank]

Grab my Johnson bar and… Hey! Get your hand away from my crotch- idiot, a Johnson bar is a giant crowbar with wheels, Jesus, what did you say you did for a living before I hired you?

[@susanstein784]

Thanks for the video John Stossel. Where can people go to research the truth of studies. I have such a difficult time getting past the politics and the talk of morality and fighting this so called institutional epidemic of victims. How can we get real answers and not look like total jerks when saying that some of these women chose and continue to choose such a 'profession' or way of making money.

[@edwierdbrown3325]

3 min and 45 seconds... she hits the nail directly on the head with regards to the right and the left.

[@MegumiZero]

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[@marshallbeck9101]

Underrated comment

[@jschapp77]

Stossel has always been a voice of reason. I’m happy that there are many other journalists following in his stead.

[@nicholaslanze6963]

Very enlightening. Thank you for your reporting!

[@BR54966]

Sir, another GREAT VIDEO

[@thereallantesh]

There are some things people are going to do whether it is legal or not. Alcohol prohibition didn't work, and sex trade prohibition doesn't work either. If prostitution were legal it would virtually eliminate any need for black market trafficking. There will always be women willing to trade sex for money, and there will always be men willing to pay for it. Making it legal will generate needed tax money, and allow for regulation to help keep the industry safer.

[@macioluko9484]

I wonder what would happen if an entire platform of a politician would be a total abolition of all taxes, regulations and tariffs. Nothing else but that!

[@halcyonzenith4411]

It's really about making sure men pay the top dollar in a rigged system where the true price is never made known up front, and the customer doesn't have the option to refuse the offer.

[@mr.mckinnon5680]

You can change the entire air of this report. Simply removing the word prostitution. And replacing it with the word politician. Remove trafficking. And replace it with legislating. It was not I who pointed out the similarities between politicians and prostitutes. For that, you need to talk to Mark Twain. Because he hit it Square on the head. The job descriptions are literally the same. And to claim that we have a prostitution problem here in this country. Is to admit that we have a politician problem. Politicians don't like prostitutes because, they hate the competition.

[@AndreRibeiro-io3vj]

Here in Brazil we previous president always spoke that there was "25 millions children living at the street", until someone explained that's impossible, because nobody would walk in street.

[@joshuafletcher598]

That’s nothing one politician here said recently that 93 million people are killed a day by guns!!!

[@vishnuguda6313]

1:45 Is that what the second page of a google search is for?

[@goldfishi5776]

Where’s the left with mah women’s rights..

[@jlg395]

Wait...I'm confused. Are they saying at 5:38 that women AREN'T furniture?

[@midtra52]

Earlier today I engaged in tomato trafficking. That's right I transplanted a tomato plant from one side of the yard to other. Heinous criminal I am.

[@kennethbowers2897]

Being a degenerate and making money, that's where this country has been heading. If my daughter were to ever start doing this garbage then you can bet your ass you wouldn't find a single picture of her in my house and she won't be allowed over for the holidays or visits.

[@kennethbowers2897]

@ALJustice0 Good, one less failure to be concerned about.

[@bwithab2073]

Growing up in Nevada - I knew about the choices many made to be a sex worker. What I think I would like to know is honest static’s. I know from experience that young children are sexually molested. Now, that was due to a neighbor and I was afraid to tell at the time. Then in later years when involved in therapy - meeting persons who were abused by adults and shared. Having said that - I have never known the stats about these types of events. I accept a persons right to sell sex to another by choice, maybe because it is regulated or was in NV but I also know there are abuses of some kind and I would like to know the truth of that too? Any ideas of how that can be identified?

[@t.c.8697]

That's my problem. It's one thing if it's adults, but we see too many times underage girls being used. We know that it's happening on the border. Also drug addicts who are underage do this. The problem is we don't seem to have anyone to investigate this or other issues without bias. We always get a side pushing for something. I watched a video by a former prostitute. It was really sad. She had been raped by her step father, turned to a life of drugs & was pimped out. After hearing her story, I think we really need to look closely at what is going on. Best wishes