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Prostitution of minors in France rises by 43 percent in four years

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Prostitution of minors in France rises by 43 percent in four years
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Prostitution of minors in France rises by 43 percent in four years
Prostitution of minors in France has risen by up 43 percent over the last four years, according to official figures published Friday. The government insists it remains committed to cracking down on exploitation…

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Sayakai 1 day ago +9513
> Miprof said the growth in recorded cases was partly linked to efforts by grassroots organisations to identify and support victims, as well as improvements in the way police handle such cases. Statistics! Where doing a better job makes it look like the problem is getting worse.
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sprashoo 1 day ago +1183
I learned this when we moved to a new city about 15 years ago and were shocked to see that it was the sexual assault capital of the country… Then we learned that no, it wasn’t, it was just that the police did a better job of investigating and prosecuting SA than most. It probably actually had lower rates than other cities for that exact reason.
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fentonspawn 1 day ago +29
Years ago I was at a forensics meeting discussing suicide rates. Oregon was reported to have a higher rate, assumed to be weather related. Many studies found medical examiner systems gave higher suicide rates over coroner systems due to cultural influences (religion).
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mmavcanuck 1 day ago +3204
Same as the “we didn’t have Trans/gay/autistic/ADD/ kids when I was growing up!” No, you just didn’t recognize them.
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Capnmarvel76 1 day ago +693
They were also kept hidden away (or kept themselves hidden), sadly. I’d much rather adjust myself to the idea that there are more different kinds of people in the world than I may have thought than damn those people into a life of isolation.
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mmavcanuck 1 day ago +252
Or worse. Got a “weird” kid that might affect the social image of your family? Nothing a little medical procedure on the brain and a permanent trip to the country can’t fix!
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DarthArtero 1 day ago +85
This is actually really terrifying, even just thinking about it on a surface level. What we're seeing in the US is a backslide of epic proportions in mainstream science and health policies (yes yes I know, its not *all*, not like anyone will read this line anyway) Its really not going to take much at all, maybe several tens of thousands of dollars, to convince rfk jr to allow mass lobotomy again..... Oh Lord I hope that never happens. Unfortunately we live in 2026 where rhe rules don't matter and "facts" are made up.
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the-mighty-kira 1 day ago +41
I can see it happening despite the fact that this is exactly what was done to his aunt Rosemary
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Snowy-Pines 1 day ago +15
I honestly think if I was born two or three decades earlier this is what my adoptive mother would have done and no one would have blinked. She liked the idea of having kids and helping people(worked in the medical field, supported humanitarian organizations, and adopted a few kids to give them a better chance at life). In reality, it seemed like she kind of hated the responsibility of it all and resented said people for relying on her(there was a lot of condescending venting while I was growing up). I realized over the years that if something didn’t help her image…she eventually turned them into problems. Problems that then became someone else’s responsibility to fix(she’d just throw money at it or consider things a lost cause and focus on the next thing). When I was going through an emotionally turmoil period in my teens, both my mother’s sister and my father and stepmother were willing to have me stay with them to get away from a domestic/emotionally abusive environment(or at least see if that would help). My mother and her husband didn’t want to look like bad parents and be embarrassed/judged so my aunt got told “No”(what if she parents better?). They then used resources and their credentials to paint me as a morally corrupt and emotionally unstable teen who should be locked up in a facility until age 21. Then be put into a home after since I wouldn’t have the skills to live independently and wasn’t “normal”. A legal battle ensued between her and my father. My mother almost succeeded in getting her way. The judge decided to give the other set of parents a shot last minute. My problems didn’t go away with the change, but things improved significantly. There was a lot of catching up to do on basic milestones toward adulthood in a very short amount of time. Some years later I found out the reason my mother thought giving me over to the state was better than my father was because his child support payments would stop since each parent would then have full time custody of a kid. My mother didn’t want to lose that extra income because her abusive husband never contributed financially in the years they were married(it’s been 20 years since and he still doesn’t). My step-mom suspected this was their real motive rather than the stated “we’re looking out for her best interest; she needs serious professional help that you can’t provide” at the time. My mother later confirmed it when she was venting about her husband and talking about my younger sister one day. Oddly enough my younger sister actually wanted to live with my dad after their divorce. She begged both parents for like a year when she was 5/6. They adored each other but the courts wouldn’t allow it since my mother refused and there wasn’t an “abuse”problem. By the time my father got full custody of her with the court’s involvement just over a decade later, the emotional/psychological damage had been done and set in super deep. There wasn’t much he and my stepmom could do. My sister’s relationship with him never recovered. Even after all this, My mother still sees herself as a struggling, good person who did the best she could with broken people rather than realizing a lot of harm was caused by her and her own unstable image.
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just-peepin-at-u 1 day ago +8
I think you should consider writing a book about this, if you ever feel emotionally up to it. There is so much c*** that happens in families that appear "good" on the outside. People can hide so much abuse and neglect as long as they appear a certain way. I grew up in a hoarder home with a lot of financial abuse, but no one who didn't really know us would ever have believed it because my mom made it as point to appear middle class, educated, and church going. It was always the kids fault. Interestingly, once we moved back to a trailer, as adults (I grew up in trailers as a young kid and then we moved into a nicer area), people were way more likely to notice and focus on the adults in the situation.
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Snowy-Pines 20 hr ago +2
Your last point is interesting and seems to track in my experience. My school sensed neglect but because it wasn’t presented in the textbook sense, my parents had their shit together professionally, and they were middle class, it was easy to see the problems as “the kid’s issue”. When my younger sister started making friends with kids that weren’t so well off and eventually moved in with a guy who came from a poor background, people passed judgment on the parents and felt sorry for the kids. My mother didn’t understand why she would befriend and go with someone like that when she came from a good home. My sister saw that her boyfriend’s family was actually super tight, pretty accepting of people, and supported each other through thick and thin. They actually behaved like a good family despite looking messy and lacking on the outside.
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immaownyou 1 day ago +25
Nowadays they just stick a worm in their brain
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Mind_Altered 1 day ago +48
And then elevate them to secretary of health
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immaownyou 1 day ago +21
What cant the Kennedys do
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Mind_Altered 1 day ago +55
Dodge bullets
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severed13 1 day ago +12
"Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys!"
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Stahl_Scharnhorst 1 day ago +6
*Crashes car*
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DeusModus 1 day ago +8
Fly planes.
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HerbaDerbaSchnerba 1 day ago +21
Speaking of the Kennedys, that was the family that lobotomized their daughter, Rose Kennedy, for being eccentric and maybe a bit gay. The procedure went horribly wrong (not that lobotomies ever really end well) and she was permanently institutionalized and led a pretty miserable, tragic life.
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VarmintSchtick 1 day ago +6
Did you also know that Steve Buscemi was a firefighter on 9/11?
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tutoredstatue95 1 day ago +15
Have intact brains, I suppose.
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Orphasmia 1 day ago +9
Their heads just do that
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severed13 1 day ago +7
Up there with Lincoln for most open minded president.
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Bagabundoman 1 day ago +2
And then their eyes glow
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Cirenione 1 day ago +5
Hidden away or locked away. The amount of people who ended up in asylums or had to endure torture play pretending as medical treatment is awful.
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sentence-interruptio 1 day ago +2
it explains why it's usually old people who get triggered by disabled people just existing near them in public space.
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HandshakeOfCO 1 day ago +178
“We didn’t have autistic people when I was a kid!” Meanwhile, there were whole stores in every city just selling model train parts lol
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AngledLuffa 1 day ago +33
hey, i bought model trains
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MN_Yogi1988 1 day ago +72
I’m sorry you had to find out this way 
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Dancing_Anatolia 1 day ago +13
Did you also walk on your toes a lot as a kid?
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Raencloud94 1 day ago +11
Wait why is that an autistic thing? (I am autistic and also would do this lol I've just never heard the correlation)
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Dancing_Anatolia 1 day ago +17
I don't think anyone knows why, it's just an observed correlation. It's called Idiopathic Toe Walking, walking without the heel touching the ground for no apparent musculoskeletal reason. A lot of people with Autism do/did it.
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Raencloud94 1 day ago +12
Interesting! For me it's because I've always tried to walk quietly, probably stemming from cptsd reasons 😅
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Medallicat 1 day ago +4
That is an interesting observation. I did it myself until age 11 and only stopped because I was being teased and laughed at about it. I was also accused of being ‘pigeon toed’ because when sitting down my feet pointed inward. Sad thing is, I was really good at athletics until that point.
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tedsmitts 1 day ago +2
I've always heard it referred to as "toe stepping" but I'm not surprised there's a more formal name.
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AnthropicSynchrotron 23 hr ago +2
So I very recently learned about https://tacanow.org/family-resources/primitive-reflex-integration/, specifically the Babinski/Plantar reflex Apparently, if these primitive reflexes are not integrated, it causes sensory issues (similar to what us autists experience) And apparently it's fixable??
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hates_stupid_people 1 day ago +10
And every town had a couple of "characters" that everyone knew about. Often with a nickname based on something they always said or did that was considered unusual.
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RexInvictus787 1 day ago +4
That same person saying that has towels in the bathroom nobody is allowed to use and she collects hummels
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LukeR_666 1 day ago +5
It's my hobby. Why you gotta belittle it?
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WeaponstoMax 1 day ago +5
Who is belittling it?
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manaman70 1 day ago +16
I'm left handed. You can see the rise in left-handedness when they stopped forcing kids to learn to write with their right hand. It was 2-3% 100 years ago in the US, and rose to 10-13% which is the world average, before the increase stopped. Perfect example of always existing, with the rise only appearing because of newly being allowed to exist. It's going to be the same for everything else we stigmatize and force people to deny. Well with the exception of specific very negative traits that harm other people. Like pedophilia.
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Trappist1 1 day ago +40
I think ADD may have some environmental factors too, like increased screen time. But, I agree with the broader point.
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mmavcanuck 1 day ago +81
That probably exacerbates it, and fucks with most people, but as someone in their 40’s that grew up before smart phones/tablets and during the “it’s not real, they just want to give every kid Ritalin” days it was definitely a thing.
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Activision19 1 day ago +38
I’m 36 and wasn’t diagnosed with ADHD until I was 34. Looking back I 100% showed signs of it growing up. My parents are definitely of the “it’s not real they just want to sell Ritalin” types.
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mmavcanuck 1 day ago +11
Me too. My family dr told my parents I probably had adhd but my mom was worried about getting me hooked on meds. One day maybe I’ll get around to getting an adult diagnosis done but if I could manage to make and then get to appointments I wouldn’t be so worried about having adhd…
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Activision19 1 day ago +6
For me getting medication was a life changing experience for me. I’m way less forgetful, way better time management and execute function, I perform significantly better at work and my anxiety around not being good enough has largely gone away now that I know what’s going on and how to help solve the problem.
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mmavcanuck 1 day ago +3
I really should go. For now I’ve been micro dosing mushrooms a few times a year and that seems to help. My older sister was diagnosed as an adult and when I brought up the idea that I might have it she laughed and told me I have more severe adhd than she does…
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Anxious-Slip-4701 1 day ago +18
The smartphones/tablets means the ADHD kid can just sit down in a corner and zombie out. 
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mmavcanuck 1 day ago +14
Until class when they can’t have the dopamine screen in their hand.
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famine- 1 day ago +15
Um no. ADHD (ADD) is mainly genetic with largest share being inherited (80%) and the rest de novo mutations. The only contributing environmental factors are exposure to biohazards during pregnancy or early childhood.
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fudge_mokey 1 day ago +6
No explanation has ever been provided for how someone's genetics cause them to have (or not have) ADHD. At best, you could say some studies have found a correlation between some genes or mutations and being diagnosed with ADHD. That doesn't mean it's caused by genetics.
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AftyOfTheUK 1 day ago +7
People used "caused by genetics" to mean "highly heritable" - while there may be technically be a distinction, it's not a meaningful one, and you win pedant of the day, sir.
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fudge_mokey 1 day ago +2
There is an explanation for why eye colour is heritable. And there is an explanation for how your genes cause you to have a certain eye colour. There are no known explanations for how ADHD is heritable. There are no known explanations for how your genes could cause you to have ADHD.
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Kardragos 1 day ago +6
Respectfully, you're wrong. It is true that there is no one-gene "switch" that turns ADHD on or off, but to say that there are no known explanations is, at best, severely misleading. ADHD is a polygenic condition; that is, it's influenced by many genes (particularly those involved in brain development and neurotransmitter systems). Environmental factors absolutely play a part, I'm not discounting that, but it's objectively wrong to say that we, at best, have a correlative understanding of the mechanisms by which ADHD arises. As well, your comparison to eye colour is misleading. Eye colour is a, comparatively, simple genetic trait. A better comparison would be height, which is also polygenic.
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AftyOfTheUK 1 day ago +2
Things like eye colour are incredibly simple expressions of genes. ADHD (and Autism, and APD and other conditions which are often comorbid) appear to be polygenic - they involve a lot of genes. We don't even fully, truly understand ADHD yet but there does appear to be a lot of research indicating dopamine levels and availability may be a huge factor. I have a friend who is bipolar, her mother is bipolar, her grandmother also. That is another condition where we cannot pin down a particular gene and say "That one" but we know that it is highly heritable, and we are very reasonably certain there are significant genetic components to that.
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Trappist1 1 day ago +5
Not saying you're wrong. I genuinely don't know enough about it. But, as someone with ADD and both my parents do not, could you please show a source. I genuinely want to read more about it.
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generalmx 1 day ago +6
add.org has a nice FAQ on genetic factors. Basically, just because something can be inherited doesn't mean it always will. Some inheritable conditions can have one or more symptomless carriers which pass on an increased risk of a mutation. It may also only be on X or only on Y. It's a really complicated and error-prone process, pretty amazing we don't have more of these mutations expressed.
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Solwake- 1 day ago +3
Here is an [open access review article](https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcpp.13696) that summarizes current (2022) knowledge on ADHD.
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Torator 1 day ago +8
ADHD genetics is polygenic Polygenic means that you need a combination of gene to activate it, so it's just possible that some were carried by your mother and the rest by your father but none of them having the combination. Some of the genes are also recessive meaning that even if one of your parent carried all the needed gene to activate some of them might not activate due to another more dominant gene. Recessive gene can skip generation. Saying ADHD is 80% genetics, is just saying that most of the diagnosis could be done just by looking at your genes. A parent having it would increase the chance for a child to get it to high %, but a lot of people carry part of the genes for it, so you're far from alone by having it while none of your parents have it.
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mr_herz 1 day ago +9
Yep. Don’t remember them flying the rainbow flags back then either.
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New_fan22 1 day ago +5
This is such a real point. I remember growing up in two smaller towns where we knew of "crossdressers." That was the term that was used a lot back then. There was not this divisive stance on them like there is today. They existed, had an obvious tough go with things, but they existed. Same with the ADD/Autistic kids, we always had a large group of "special needs" kids in addition there always seemed to be a pocket of kids that needed attention between the regular curriculum and the special needs programs.
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toaster404 1 day ago +8
They were recognized, then beaten until they learned to hide.
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jigsaw1024 1 day ago +6
Ya. Had this whole conversation with some coworkers on a break one day, and someone made the comment how none of these 'people' were around while we were in school. My exact response was: because they had the shit beaten out of them until they conformed or disappeared. Table went real quiet for a moment when I said that. /getting old... school was 30+ years ago now.
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DigNitty 1 day ago +4
My uncle insists there weren’t as many neurodiverse people when he grew up. And yet he told me not to bother his sister, my aunt, when she went to the garage to eat during family dinners from overstimulation.
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VoidOmatic 1 day ago +6
As an ADHD kid in the 80s/90s this is so true. We were everywhere, some were just getting help from their parents.
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Phazon2000 1 day ago +5
We sure were! Oh boy I can hear the help jingling on my dad’s belt.
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Teantis 1 day ago +4
Like how Bruce Springsteen kept kissing Clarence Clemons on the lips in concerts and talking about how he loved him and everyone was like "yeah but in a manly way! Right? Right? Like bros?"
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Tro1138 1 day ago +11
I really feel like we went through a point where being trans was trendy like being punk or goth. It was a way to be against societal norms and have an identity to fight for. Then you get to choose a new name and pronouns and be treated with a sorta special privilege. It's unfortunate. I've seen a lot of kids in middle schools into high school suddenly claiming to be trans only to revert back to original gender later on. This is based on my own observations.
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Medallicat 1 day ago +2
Not just kids, I remember plenty of “rumours” about work associates who like to dress up as women in their spare time or frequent unique establishments. Those spreading the rumours did so maliciously among their peers not realising it reflected worse on them as the one spreading rumours than it did on the poor souls trying to live free.
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Throwaway_noDoxx 1 day ago +2
It wasn’t that long ago that doctors were “sure” girls didn’t have adhd.
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SnooChipmunks2079 1 day ago +2
Such nonsense. I was completely oblivious to virtually everything in high school but based on Facebook forty years later, everyone we thought was probably gay is in fact now openly gay, plus a few people I never would have guessed.
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MAVvH 1 day ago +2
Like how people say, "skin cancer didnt exist before sun block so sun block is what is causing skin cancer."
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ExoticWeapon 1 day ago +86
That’s disturbingly hope inspiring. Glad it’s not actually increasing. But the tradeoff is being aware of horrors that should have never happened at all. Better late than never, every pedo/rapist should ☠️.
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academiac 1 day ago +17
Reminds me of Trump during Covid. If we stop testing the cases will drop. Technically true but utterly stupid.
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Rrrrandle 1 day ago +47
> Glad it’s not actually increasing I don't think we have enough information to conclude either way on that.
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CursorX 1 day ago +2
It only says partly and not entirely due to statistics. Don't corner the hope market yet!
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occio 1 day ago +10
I hate clickbait reporting that ignores this. Same thing when housing benefits were made more accessible in Germany. It was the stated goal to allow more people to get them. Afterwards headlines read "more people than ever before on housing benefits".
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sparkax 1 day ago +18
Oh like the opposite of Trump's thinking: the less you report and document of such cases, the less they actually exist!!!
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That-Ad-4300 1 day ago +3
You don't exist if I close my eyes.
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Mudsnail 1 day ago +3
Why Donald Trump told people to stop taking covid tests....
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Falsus 1 day ago +5
When in fact it is probably better than in a long time! Like if something gets reported and makes into a good and measurable statistics chances are that a lot of the issues are actually also dealt with properly. It is a lot harder to deal with something when it is simply not being reported and hidden away, letting it prosper away from sight.
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Debt101 1 day ago +13
The racist assholes in Instagram did not really understand this.there was map of most reported sex crimes. I'm not saying all the areas that were green were not fine. But it was pretty obvious the word reported was doing some heavy lifting here.
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DiMarcoTheGawd 1 day ago +2
Wow in that case what a terrible headline
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Slumunistmanifisto 1 day ago +3
Statistics can get really kirked up if manipulation is allowed.
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MajesticQ 1 day ago +829
Who are prostituting them? Criminal rings?
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Apprehensive_Tea9461 1 day ago +860
Yes and no, ive seen the interview of a young orphaned girl who was in a home for troubled teens and she explained that alot of the people who work there and are supposed to take of them push them into prostitution, they do it either so that the kids can pay and stay in a safe place longer or to keep the money themselves. If the kids refuse, they abuse them or kick them out in the streets. Once again kids are the victims of a failed system..
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Darkfight 1 day ago +198
Holy f****** dystopia. I imagine this is not only happening in France. Interesting how my first reaction is that my fist would really like to meet these people but I imagine violence and trauma is exactly how we got here and not a solution to anything...but still.
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Numpostrophe 1 day ago +58
In the US too. Here’s a NYT mirror of a recent story in LA and how it happens. https://archive.is/2025.10.26-090338/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/magazine/sex-trafficking-girls-la-figueroa.html
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corr0sive 1 day ago +27
Uuhhh just give them money, and not SA them.
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ViolenceAdvocator 1 day ago +22
There are millions of people who would be more upset at them getting money than being SAd
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BestFriendWatermelon 1 day ago +45
This is a really extraordinary claim to sit on 465 upvotes as of me writing this. "I've seen an interview" is your source? Because I'm in the UK, have worked in care homes for children and have never seen anything like that nor could imagine *how* such behaviour could even be attempted. There's CCTV everywhere, electronic locks on doors, a mostly female workforce, constant monitoring by social services, inspectors, etc. All of it is completely funded in full by local authorities. There's no mechanism to accept any kind of payments into the system, and any peculiar financial arrangements would be subject to great scrutiny. Now admittedly this isn't France, but I'd expect France to have similar standards. I do know that a lot of the children brought into these systems are deeply troubled and will behave in ways that are horrifying to witness, including inventing wild stories of how they're treated for attention and to attack the people who are trying to care for them. But seriously your story is wild in the extreme.
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Apprehensive_Tea9461 1 day ago +29
https://journals.openedition.org/sejed/11469?lang=en Yes we do have the same standards but you have to remember we have a big problem with fundings and we dont have enough workers to take care of the kids. There are other issues with the system and im pretty sure theyre listed in this article, but the main one is poverty, those institutions are mostly located in poor neighborhoods, the kids there are forgotten especially the troubled ones so this kind of abuse is not surprising at all sadly. And even if its noticed the children would just be placed in another establishment with the same kind of issues
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Primary-Debate-549 1 day ago +147
Youth services: [https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20250502-french-child-welfare-service-accused-of-allowing-kids-to-fall-into-prostitution](https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20250502-french-child-welfare-service-accused-of-allowing-kids-to-fall-into-prostitution) Or, more to the point, either kids choose to subject themselves to youth services ... which is a pretty damn bad environment. Or they go back to their parents or friends or anywhere they can be easily found and face "arrest" (sorry "protection", which involved the police coming to get you and taking you away in cuffs to be back in youth services, but now locked up, not even able to go to school. Seriously. If you kill someone as a kid you get to go to keep going to school, even university. If you run away from youth services ... no school for you. It's called protection) If they want to stay "hidden", they have to make money illegally (because legally is not allowed, and so not possible)
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sentence-interruptio 1 day ago +6
something i noticed from watching Adolescence. a murderer with non-abusive parents gets to have a competent lawyer, is actually listened to by adults, and is accompanied by an actual trustworthy adult so no cop can get a forced confession out of him or trick him. he'll serve time but after that, he has a future. meanwhile many kids with abusive parents will suffer from a lifetime of trauma. worse life than a god damn murderer. shit parents are truly a disaster.
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ourobourobouros 1 day ago +29
Why are there so many willing customers? The real issue is that there's too many adult men creating a demand for sexually accessible children
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whitelionV 1 day ago +63
Because there's absolutely zero initiative to understand, treat or rehabilitate pedophiles. For some reason people think that if they hate them enough, clench their fists really hard and wish publicly they get abused in prison, the problem will go away... Oh, and all of that while everything pointing to this being at least 1 in 10 of the population.
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LeeroyTC 1 day ago +10
You can't change someone's sexual orientation with therapy or rehab - regardless of who someone is attracted to. If you think gay conversion therapy is a cruel joke doomed to failure, then therapy to treat this issue is similarly doomed. The best you can do is remove them from the general population so they can't harm anyone else. It is not about cruelty; it's about acknowledging that some people are incurably dangerous.
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BrotherChe 1 day ago +3
Is that your medical professional opinion, or your emotional response?
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ourobourobouros 1 day ago +1
The problem is pathologizing pedophilia when it's obviously just a result of how patriarchal culture teaches men to fetishize domination and vulnerability. They aren't mentally ill, they've been enabled to be sadists and sadism is its own reward.  That's why it's overwhelmingly men that are pedophile, and why men in virtually every culture pursue girls as young as they're legally allowed.
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BrunoEye 1 day ago +40
It's only overwhelmingly men in the public perception because when a woman does it everyone either ignores it, treats it as a joke, downplays it, or congratulates the victim.
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kittenmittens4865 1 day ago +3
This is… super accurate. There absolutely are people struggling who need help. But for the Epsteins and Trumps out there, it’s really just the culmination of everything patriarchy upholds. I don’t think these people are true “pedophiles”- they are just opportunists who get off on wielding power. There is a difference between specifically only wanting children and just being happy to exploit those most vulnerable.
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OttawaOneTwenty 1 day ago +6
The other issue is that you can either work your butt off for peanuts per hour or make more in a single hour than you'd make working an entire day (sometimes multiple days) at minimum wage. If people weren't being crushed by the capitalist boot, they'd do what they want, not what they need, to survive.
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Travwolfe101 1 day ago +3
Mostly all the illegal immigrants and the asylum seekers that are doctors and engineers.
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alien2sick 1 day ago +465
It's not raising it's now being caught more
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beekeeper1981 1 day ago +50
Could it not be both? If the stats weren't accurate before how can it be compared.
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RBVegabond 1 day ago +13
It could also be the opposite. More eyes on it could have a reduction
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HermanManly 1 day ago +262
This is likely due to efforts in actually uncovering and dismantling these rings. It was happening just as much before, it just didnt show in the statistics.
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NiasRhapsody 1 day ago +33
You mean like the article directly states is the cause?
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Living_Natural1829 1 day ago +524
Did y’all see the link to the other article in this one? “Nigerian prostitution ring dismantled in France”. I hate to admit it, but my first thought when looking at this post was “I bet it’s tied to immigration and poor refugees who are preyed upon.”
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Dedexy 1 day ago +84
Victims in those cases are always those who are most vulnerable materially and economically. Homeless people, refugees but also orphans/"children of the state" (which also ends up recouping with homeless once they're old enough) are not protected at all against such crimes, if the people that are supposed to take care of them aren't themselves perpetrators in some ways.
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Only_My_Dog_Loves_Me 1 day ago +99
The article from 2018?
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Living_Natural1829 1 day ago +50
Good catch. Poor refugees have been preyed upon for many many years, amigo. I’m glad you acknowledge this problem has been around for a long time. 🍻
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BrotherChe 1 day ago +3
oh, look, a disingenuous commenter
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olivebars 1 day ago +4
I mean it’s access to more money than any child has seen, and most adults will see in France. I feel like they one preying on them is the brutal economy
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GoldBofingers 1 day ago +18
Have you considered that the traficking is serving a domestic demand for such things in France? I Let's start punishing the "customers" (abusers) just as much as the trafickers.
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Initial-Return8802 1 day ago +27
I'm in Madagascar which is a former French colony - unfortunately the amount of French old men I see with girls who are *clearly* underage is too damn high. Recently an entire family went to prison due to recording an *act* with a young boy for a foreigner so they don't even have to come here to abuse
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Living_Natural1829 1 day ago +29
Yes. I’ve thought of that. 🤪 Anyone (besides the victim) who is part of child prostitution is the scum of the earth.
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Anxious-Slip-4701 1 day ago +12
The men who stop for prostitutes in Italy are mainly white. A couple of decades ago the women were eastern European, now they're also African. It's painful to see. 
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ripyourlungsdave 1 day ago +22
Isn't the word "trafficking" when the victims in question can't consent?..
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C-tapp 1 day ago +106
Sensationalism at its worst. There are 70 million people in France and this article is about a rise from 288 to 416 cases. They even admit that a large portion of the stats is because they’re getting better at reporting them. Don’t get me wrong, 416 is around 416 too many but this article is misleading trash.
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Tricky_Potatoe 1 day ago +114
worrying
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Uisce-beatha 1 day ago +17
Hopefully it's because they are doing a better job finding and prosecuting offenders and that's why the numbers are going up. If the USA actually took our top 10% to court and convicted them of the crimes they commit then I am 100% certain our numbers would skyrocket temporarily among many facets of criminal behavior.
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MountainTwo3845 1 day ago +35
Did you read the article? It says why there's an uptick.
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PlanktonInitial7945 1 day ago +22
Of course they didn't. This is Listnook.
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Adventurous-Depth984 1 day ago +17
This doesn’t mean the problem is getting worse. This means the problem already WAS worse and we didn’t know until now.
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Fluffcake 1 day ago +14
I suspect this number has been consistent for the last few milennia, but the methods and focus on recording it has gotten 43% better the last 4 years.
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5043090 1 day ago +36
Sexual slavery and child r***. “Prostitution of” sanitizes it a little bit.
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CptMcDickButt69 1 day ago +34
As much as i understand that people have a problem with media sanewashing headlines "Prostitution of" is not sanitized language, its simply professional writing because the topic is about exactly that. If they would write "child r*** and child sexual slavery on the rise" it would allure to a far broader/different topic.
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Free_Surprise_7939 1 day ago +3
Also the article itself states a lot of it is self imposed. Obviously not good but the root cause of a kid being sold off by a ring and a kid seling itself are different. One can be attavked the other is a systematic issue
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5043090 1 day ago +4
In fairness, you have a point. I guess I just so loathe the action that not putting it in the harshest of terms feels wrong. I’m trying to think of how it could be written differently…perhaps “Sex trafficking…”? (Problematic because people think “abducted” when they hear “trafficking” even though most sex trafficking victims are not actually abducted, and all “prostitution” of children is legally classified as sex trafficking. ([Source](https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/human-trafficking/myths-facts))
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Logical_Net6108 1 day ago +13
Who do you think is sanitizing the language, the National Observatory on Violence Against Women or RFI? What motive is there, do you think either of these groups are involved in it? It would be weird for them to be reporting on themselves.
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VaginaWarrior 1 day ago +16
I'm sorry, IT'S CALLED SEX TRAFFICKING Minors are not prostitutes, and many adults who are were trafficked as children and that's how they got stuck in that world. 
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Calm-Treacle8677 1 day ago +12
Not necessarily that could make up some of it but, not all of it so writing that would be incorrect.  
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Lynda73 1 day ago +9
You mean child r***?
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throwaway273322 1 day ago +5
four years since Russo-Ukrainian war
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Main_Character11 1 day ago +62
20 years since Heinz’ stopped making purple ketchup
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madness817 1 day ago +10
29 years since they stopped producing Wishbone on pbs
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Main_Character11 1 day ago +4
a damn shame if you asked me
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_Stormhound_ 1 day ago +17
Must be it
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Better_Cauliflower63 1 day ago +37
Nowhere in the article does it state that the victims or the perpetrators are Ukrainian or any of their national identification. 
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rcanhestro 1 day ago
tbf, it's an "issue" with the article (or the sources). nationality is a major criteria to identify the problem.
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csimonson 1 day ago +6
I'm sure there is a correlation but over the past 4 years I have seen A LOT more russian speaking people on websites like p******.
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Hopeful-Explorer-443 2 days ago -6
That is child traficking s@xual exploitation. Children cant consent to being prostitues, many adults dont either. France's case is partly because of better reporting but i wont be surprised if traficking has increased worldwide due to ongoing and additonal conflicts and harder economic times. Unfortunatey women and children are the first victims of wars (and hard times)
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SaltandLillacs 1 day ago +52
Don’t make serious topics ad friendly, just say sexual exploitation.
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Goosepond01 1 day ago +216
>s@xual exploitation. be an adult, say the word, stop giving in to these nonsense censors. It's child trafficking, it's r***, it's sexual exploitation, it's slavery, it's evil.
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Khaeos 1 day ago +59
It's stupid to self-censor your words to soften their impact especially when their impact is the point. Have you noticed an uptick in automatic censoring on listnook? I've had several comments about serious topics get auto-modded and shadowed because of the words I used. I had to obfuscate and hint to remain visible.
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pumpkinspicecum 1 day ago +32
It’s just the influence of TikTok on Gen Z
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NoConflict3231 1 day ago +6
I see gen z shitting on Millennials all the time but at least we don't self censor ourselves all the f****** time
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hey_there_moon 1 day ago +5
Just got off a 3 day ban for "hate" because I said that in a certain incident of ambulances being set on fire in the UK, they were targeted because the charity is run by a certain ethno-religious group. Listnooks auto flagging system apparently works the same way as Big Balls using chatgpt to flag any program or grant with "woke" descriptors.
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megaplex66 1 day ago +4
> I've had several comments about serious topics get auto-modded and shadowed because of the words I used. I had to obfuscate and hint to remain visible. Same.
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DirtyNastyRoofer149 1 day ago +3
And on top of the they are using the at symbol to replace and e. Do a 3 if your going to censor yourself.
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my_name_is_juice 1 day ago +20
Is coerced prostitution not prostitution? I don't think consent is required to meet the definition.
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Wolfgung 1 day ago +14
Yes, it becomes sex slavery.
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my_name_is_juice 1 day ago +6
If the sex is also being sold then it is also prostitution.
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AnomalySystem 1 day ago +8
Ah yes it’s not the men who die who are victims
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healthierlurker 1 day ago +14
Men are by and large the biggest victim of war. Your last sentence is cope.
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Capnmarvel76 1 day ago +2
I think it’s fair to say that war > refugees > poverty > exploitation, as in an increase in international conflicts ultimately leads to higher numbers of desperate individuals who are vulnerable to exploitation, beit sexual, economic, or whatever.
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08_IfHeHolla 1 day ago +4
Saxual exploitation? 🎷
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ApprehensiveGold2773 1 day ago +16
Depends on how you see it. Literally everyone forgets about men, which is why their suicide rates are so high.
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spongue 1 day ago +20
In this case though >Girls accounted for 94 percent of the 704 victims identified.
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jesset77 1 day ago +2
Not being able to identify male victims sounds like it aligns with GP's claim, though
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Hopeful-Explorer-443 1 day ago -3
Women and children arent the only victims of war, men especially those who have to fight suffer too, no doubt but in war casualties fallen men are counted and honored but women and children who are displaced and abused often are not. R@pes are just considered part of war and that aspect is often under reported. Men and women try to commit sucide at almost equal rates, men just tend to use more violent measure so are more "effective". Regarddless any life lost to war or sucide is a tragedy.
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DirtyNastyRoofer149 1 day ago +9
Just say R*** saying R@pe makes you look less intelligent.
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aunistly 1 day ago +7
Given that men make up the vast majority of the front line, they are by definition the first victims. Concerning suicide, men are arguably more committed to seeing it through. Either way, I respect your opinions (all of which have merit), and I agree with you by and large. Also, girls and women are indeed the primary victims of trafficking. And it’s heartbreaking.
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Upset_Marketing3182 1 day ago +9
>Unfortunatey women and children are the first victims of wars (and hard times) Yes, I forgot women had a monopoly on victimhood
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Impressive-Dig-3892 1 day ago -1
And I'm sure some people will just say "sex work is real work" and hand wave any concerns away
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michaeltheobnoxious 1 day ago +23
I have no problem with a consenting adult choosing sex work as their profession... But the key term is 'consenting adult'. A minor is not a consenting adult. An 'at risk' adult is not a consenting adult. I'm pretty confident that the 'some people' you allude to will broadly share this sentiment. Nobody wants kids being sold into the sex trade, unless they are paedophiles or paedophile adjacent.
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pnutbuttered 1 day ago +3
Went back to watching cartoons instead of responding?
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LeedsFan2442 1 day ago +5
It is for consenting adults
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floftie 1 day ago +2
I think this has always been an issue in France, it's casually talked about in the opening pages of the Da Vinci Code, which is weird.
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