It's just like Sandra described. The terms “human trafficking” or “sex trafficking” are useless and confusing. We hear many anti-sex work organizations call any sex work activity human trafficking.
If we can take out this ideology about how sex work is bad and people should not do sex work, so then we can go and do other kinds of work.... People may have different life conditions, and they need to do sex work. People have different life conditions, so they may want to be a chef in a kitchen. When you ask caregivers whether they want to fly away from their families to take care of the children of others, they will not tell you that this is their ideal work. That doesn't mean we need to criminalize this kind of work.
I think that's why this committee keeps having so much trouble. It's because the definition of human trafficking is so often being used to convey sex work. The purpose of using this term is to eradicate sex workers. It makes people think that sex work is evil. That's why I think—