Why prostitutes are heroes and OnlyFans girls aren’t
In 2006, Jeffrey Epstein was charged with the solicitation of prostitution.
People who now wonder why his treatment seemed so lenient at the time have trouble understanding that this was before the era of pedo and trafficking hysteria.
As Michael Tracey points out, politicians and the media now regularly refer to Epstein “victims,” without any regard for whether they met him before or after they had reached adulthood, or the exact nature of the relationship. Epstein being richer and older than women in his life was enough to make him guilty of something.
[Michael Tracey a journalist, political commentator, and Bernie Sanders supporter. – Ed.]
Tracey has also done an excellent job documenting the rise of the “anti-trafficking racket,” a big money movement going after activities that are either imaginary or not that serious and that has the backing of government, large corporations, and religious institutions.
Our language has gotten increasingly vague in order to stigmatize more and more kinds of behavior.
The definition of prostitution is pretty straightforward. The point of terms like grooming and trafficking is to obscure what is going on, and make it impossible to even conceive of a woman voluntarily engaging in prostitution in the same way she might open an OnlyFans account.
Survivor implies that she’s lucky to even be alive and the least you can do is be quiet and not ask any inconvenient questions regarding how consistent her story has been, or whether she had a financial incentive to change it.
The trafficking craze has all the classic signs of a moral panic, including hysterical rhetoric, lots of money going to alleged victims and those who purport to advocate on their behalf, few willing to use basic standards of evidence to check extreme claims, and the silencing of dissent from the dominant narrative …
