"Every year, in the lead up to the Super Bowl, the anti-trafficking cottage industry polishes the old turd: "Sporting events cause sex trafficking!" In reality, millions of dollars in anti-trafficking funds have empowered law enforcement and fake Christian nonprofits to harass, exploit, and arrest sex workers. The Super Bowl sex trafficking narrative is just their annual...well, Super Bowl-for spreading the myth."
"A two-year public records investigation by an SF sex worker advocacy nonprofit found that despite millions spent on 'trafficking' stings, arrests overwhelmingly targeted adult consensual sex workers. You heard right: Not a lot of pimps arrested. The Super Bowl trafficking panic doesn't reduce exploitation-it legitimizes policing that harms sex workers and immigrants while doing little to stop real trafficking. Stop The Raids, a sex worker led movement that counters the sporting event sex trafficking myth, has educated the media, cops, elected officials, and the public"
Millions of anti-trafficking dollars empower law enforcement and faith-based nonprofits to harass, exploit, and arrest sex workers, often targeting consenting adults rather than pimps. A San Francisco sex worker advocacy nonprofit's two-year public records investigation found that 'trafficking' stings overwhelmingly resulted in arrests of adult consensual sex workers. Sporting-event trafficking panics legitimize policing that harms sex workers and immigrants while doing little to stop actual trafficking. Stop The Raids, a sex-worker-led movement, has educated media, cops, elected officials, and the public at multiple Super Bowls, reducing spectacle but not ending sting operations.
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