Decriminalization of Prostitution: The Soros Effect

Abstract

This article explores the activities of George Soros and his charitable organization, Open Society Foundations (OSF), in advocating for the full decriminalization of the sex trade industry. Research finds that OSF spends only a small amount of money on grass roots "sex worker" groups around the world advocating for full decriminalization, but the foundation awards larger amounts of funds to large human rights groups whose reports and policies have a wider reach. OSF's rationale for full decriminalization fails to consider violence and coercion in the sex trade industry, misreads research, and does not include research from venues where full decriminalization of prostitution has occurred. Thus OSF and its grantees have created a partial view on prostitution that they advocate to the public. Those concerned with trafficking for sexual exploitation, violence, coercion, and abuse in prostitution should be cognizant of these strategies used by decriminalization advocates funded by OSF and be prepared to point out the unsupported assumptions and meet OSF's allegations with proven facts.

Prostitution Arrest Spatial Forecasting in an Era of Increasing Decriminalization

“…Cunningham and Shah (2018) [52], for example, found that the decriminalization of indoor sex work in a Rhode Island community did increase the overall size of the market (specifically, there were more participants and more exchanges) but resulted in fewer reported rape offenses and fewer reported sexually transmitted infections by the sex sellers. Raphael (2018) [53], however, found that decriminalization leads to more sex trafficking, primarily because the traffickers see decriminalized sex markets as safer and more lucrative. In fact, the frequency of sex sellers that are also or were also victims of human trafficking is high; with some research finding that prostitution is the primary or only motive behind most trafficking cases in the United States [54][55][56].…”

Mecanismos de reclutamiento utilizados por las redes de tráfico sexual en Nevada, Estados Unidos

“…La prostitución legal en Nevada ha sido estudiada de modo exhaustivo (Brents y Hausbeck, 2007;Brents y col., 2010;Seals, 2015;Brents, 2016;Raphael, 2018;Blithe y col., 2019;Walks, 2019), así como la prostitución ilegal autóctona (Farley, 2007;Wagner y col., 2016;Macfarlane y col., 2017). Por otra parte, son numerosas las investigaciones realizadas en México sobre las técnicas de neutralización utilizadas para minimizar la responsabilidad de quienes trafican mujeres para la prostitución.…”