Santa Cruz has nearly 16, inhabitants and a substantial town. The population of the entire archipelago is about 25, But yesterday I did manage to produce a long post on our visit to Santa Cruz, which will be up tomorrow morning tortoises!
I did! All posts are written in the late afternoon or evening when we return to the ship. The Post is hardly alone. Why, you might wonder, does exchanging money for sex need a rebrand?
Sometimes the phrase has been edited out after publication. No advocacy worker wants to stigmatize the women or children who are trafficked or who resort to prostitution. Survivors of the sex trade should never be blamed or criminalized.
Nor should the humanity of individuals working in the sex trade be reduced to what they do for money. Many of those urging legitimacy for the sex trade also take a stand vehemently β and presumably without seeing any contradiction β against child labor, indentured servitude and slavery. Though data is often incomplete, given the difficulties of tracking a black market, research from those who work with survivors indicates that only a tiny minority of people actively want to remain in prostitution.
Those who enter the sex trade often do so because their choices are sorely circumscribed. Most prostitutes are poor and are overwhelmingly women; many of them are members of racial minorities and immigrants; many are gay, lesbian or transgender. Many, if not most, enter the trade unwillingly or underage one oft-cited statistic shows the most common age of entry is between 12 and 16; some have also disputed this.
