not relevant, how convenient. Look it. Allowing sexual enslavement to go on for an extended period of time is wrong. The cops said this is what was going on. If it wasn't then they were lying just to get the public in an uproar. If these were concenting acts and no one was in danger then fine but it was the cops that put out the enslavement thing.
Okay, I am not knowledgeable about the case, but...
(1) I would imagine you could do a broad vice crackdown on such places. How many are there, vs. places in strip malls that say "Massage" and have all-male clienteles? I really don't know that world; I always assumed if you see a place called "Massage" in a little strip mall, it's "that kind" of massage.
So question (1): how many "erotic massagers" are trafficked?
Are the cops talking at all about the prevalence of the practice? Here's why... it's either (a) or (b)
(a) It is very prevalent for such establishments to be staffed through sexual slavery
(b) It by far more prevalent for them to be staffed by sex workers who want to exchange said services for money.
If (a), Kraft is a monster,
if he knows (a). But every other monster of this variety to date has been ignored. Eh well, then he's just funny, until you think about what his actions really support... but then... OMG we have to shut down
all these joints, or do like the Dutch and stop doing this crap underground so you can tax & regulate it.
Then the bust/hoopla actually makes sense; it is denting demand through high-visibility enforcement. You have a big name that will help to raise awareness of the issue, so you use it. Right?
What annoys me is that there's no attending demand that these places be state-inspected and state-regulated, since they are apparently
going to keep doing business in every state.
Either that or people should be demanding that they all be super super seriously shut down.
Putting all the responsibility on the demand side makes no sense, if you're not even trying to fix the problem. Like I said, of all my issues in life, frequenting such places is not one of them. It just seems unfair to me, whether it's kraft or some shmuck who can only
afford 59 bucks, to not try like hell to close the place down (instead opting to bust a few customers at one particular place.)
Now if it's part of a statewide crackdown that they really expect to stamp out this form of prostitution, I guess that is good, assuming the trafficking thing is true. The other alternative is to make it all above board (this is the alternative, I think, that is really about solving the problem)