However, even after the slave trade was illegal a lot of it continued for some time. And ending slavery — only cost about 600,000 lives.

🙂 🙂 🙂

Legalisation will not always be a great help, but it is a sine qua non, without legalisation of prostitution the fight against sex slavery and human trafficking is lost beforehand. It is a precondition, but generally not sufficient in itself.

As always, Trump is an egregious anomaly.

No it won’t. And in some countries it would probably make little or no difference. But it was a big help here.

A small, but salient, detail is that the angler fish are female, males are just some kind of small appendix.

I doubt that making prostitution legal will solve the problem of sex slavery, but it is a good step in the right direction.

I think so too. Trump as a species of Angler fish.

Well, he said they abolished slavery worldwide, and that’s clearly a load of rubbish. There are good things they did, but overall, they were behind most countries in their treatment of other than straight white Protestant men despite having a constitution declaring that all men are created equal.

For example, the US had nothing to do with the fact that NZ never had slavery. (There was a hierarchy in Maoridom, and the status of the lowest is translated as slaves, but they weren’t slaves in the same way that we understand it today.)

Yeah, I’d like to see that one still there too.