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Essay / The Pros and Cons of Prostitution - 1105
Sheila Jeffreys agrees when she writes: "Those who seek to make distinctions generally subscribe to the idea that there is a free and respectable form of adult prostitution which can be considered ordinary. work and legalized, a form of prostitution for the rational and chosen individual, based on equality and contract. [Yet] the vast majority of prostitution fits this image very poorly but it is the necessary fiction that underpins the normalization and legalization of the industry” (9). Prostitution is “the most profitable sector [of] organized crime” (Jeffreys 2). As Jeffreys describes how the normalization of terms relating to the prostitution industry has led people to “accept” it (Jeffrey 8). For example, writes Jeffreys, "as a corollary of this position, men who buy women are now commonly referred to as 'customers,' which normalizes their practice as simply a form of consumer activity" (8). Additionally, as the Trafficking in Persons Report shows, globalization has created a transnational sex trade in which individuals are often promised opportunities in other countries and are then forced into the sex trade once they get opportunities.