when you’re asking the public to do their work for them?
Not content with requiring drunk men to get formal consent from drunk women before engaging in sexual activity, without requiring anything of the latter, the government’s latest wacky scheme is to make users of prostitutes responsible for making sure the girls haven’t been the victims of sex-trafficking. With a potential rape charge if they ‘knowingly’ engage in sex with a trafficked girl.
Sounds sensible, but, of course, its completely unenforceable. Never mind the rate of trafficking is somewhat less than the tabloids and Julie Bindel might claim (hell, it makes for prurient reading). But how is anyone to know? Cue lots of conversations with Albanians barely speaking English…’You do anal? You do anal willingly?’
But why stop at trafficking? Why stop at the sex-trade? Brothels can be connected to organized crime–make punters responsible for all the criminal activities undertaken by anyone connected to the brothel. In fact, make all consumers of all products responsible for everything done in bringing something to market. Cockles provided by a snakehead gang of illegals? Shit, you’re responsible. Apples picked by illegals? You’re responsible. You drink Coke? You‘re responsible for poisoning farmers.
Hell, makes enforcing the law a lot easier.