• GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I’ve heard about there being a huge human trafficking problem in China (though I think that extends to many Asian countries both liberal and socialist), and I wonder what the root of it is. There are some niches of obvious specialized demand, like the trafficking of people (even unwillingly in some cases!) from the DPRK, but I don’t understand why sex trafficking is such a stubborn issue even at the rather large scale it exists in.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s something that requires a large study, which I’m sure China is down to tackle, just for whatever reasons there are issues in implementation. It’s easy to build a dam, much harder to have perfect information

      I do recall in that interview the person was very obviously senile, it must be hard to help someone when they don’t remember how they were wronged, just that they were