Reply #128: Prosecutors and the IRS treat prostitution as a money laundering business.

[bluestate10]

The focus is on big organizations that gross millions of dollars each year, that focus happen even if every woman or man working for the organization is a willing participant. Prostitution is a multi tiered situation that runs the gamut from sexual slavery to high class prostitutes who select their dates and charge hundreds or even thousands of dollars for encounters. Law enforcement, in particular the IRS, focus on the latter when their efforts should be locked in on the former. There are some on DU and I am sure, in other forums, that can't wrap their minds around the fact that there are women and a few men selling their sexual services and making small fortunes doing so. When I think about prostitution, I don't think about women and men that make small fortunes from selling their bodies, out of sight, out of mind, as long as they don't tolerate abuse, more power to them. I think about the part of the issue, where women and children are forced to work against their will and are treated like human garbage by everyone, including police. That is the part of the issue that cops and IRS agents should be thinking about and working every day to shut down. The latter person is ill served by the type of moral blindness to the different facets of prostitution that many on the Left and Right are burdened with.