Thaddeus Russell on Sex Slaves and the Surveillance State

Thaddeus
Russell looks back on the harmful mythmaking about “white slavery”
in the Progressive Era. It helped create, expand, and strengthen
the police powers of an array of government agencies. Since the
onset of the panic, those agencies have imprisoned and sterilized
hundreds of thousands of women who worked as prostitutes, taken
their children from them, forced them onto the streets and into
dependent relationships with male criminals, and made their jobs
among the most dangerous in the world.

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