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RE: I grew up next to a brothel...
The only part I take issue with is the trafficking... I fully believe a woman should be able to chose how she uses her body, but that's not what was happening if those girls were kidnapped and forced into that life. :(
I looked it up later and the way it works with Korea is more often debt trafficing. Basically the girls "choose" to work to pay off debt. But I don't know if that's what happened with them or not. With organized crime getting clear answers is always hard (and often dangerous)
Yeah, that gives me no confidence any of those women wanted to be there. :(
Same. But from my father's stories and memories I don't think they hated it at that level either. Their pimp guy was across the USA so it's not like they couldn't have run off in the night, and my dad would have helped and so would some of the Johns.
I think some of it is between language, lack of skills, and questionable immigration status there just weren't a lot of options. But it could absolutely be a much darker story than I ever knew.
Really though, the whole situation - forced or otherwise - was a million times worse for the way prostitution is illegal and the abuse of the cops.
So a criminal organization tricks a girls parents into insurmountable debt, takes the girl as payment, ships her somewhere she doesn't speak the language, probably raping, beating and addicting her to drugs along the way, then forces her to fuck random guys to "pay off the debt" while almost certainly ensuring she gets no money and the debt never goes down...
But the cops who got a sexual favor are the ones who made it 1000x worse...
Your bias is showing.
Yes the cops added to the problem, but because of our religiously driven laws the only other option they had was to put the girls in jail. Their hands were essentially tied by public opinion... And the thing is, without government things wouldn't be any different. The only way forward is progressive laws which recognize womens' right to choose while stopping traffickers.
You're reading a bunch in that didn't happen to my knowledge, especially with korean prostitution as it often happened at the time. I have no idea where you got all that. They weren't addicted to any drugs. There was no one controlling them by violence (at least on any day to day basis). Their parents are likely not involved - korea has a very particular pattern to prostitution specific to it. So all these details you just made up aren't accurate.
The real danger comes from the customers who can get violent. If that happens, who do they turn to? The cops? LOL. Nope, the cops are just as likely to hurt them worse given what happened.
In this case, yes, the cops make things MUCH worse because all of that can only happen with the cops being corrupt.
And no, they don't have to put the girls in jail. The cops (and the prosecutors) have HUGE discretion in what they enforce and how they enforce it. They definitely don't have to use their power to abuse the girls.