ORGANIZED DEGRADATION.
I quote these remarks because it is necessary to make people understand that the traffic is not merely concerned with moving prostitutes or potential prostitutes about. I have heard that people say, " Well, if something like 70 per cent. are already prostitutes before they get caught, the evil of the traffic as traffic -does not seem very serious." But it must be realized that the situation is intensely serious, for the traffic has become an agency for the most highly organized system of degradation the world has ever seen.
It is all a question of money. More money can be made for the traffickers by girls expert in perversion, and out of men whose morbid cravings have been stimulated and sometimes created. Hence the attack by suggestive performances, by obscene publications, by indecent exhibitions, by drink, by dope. And all for what purpose ? Nothing in the world but money, made by the people who profit by the obsession and degradation which they themselves have helped to produce. The demand is stimulated for the supply which they can provide. Much more money can be made in this way than by satisfying the common sensuality of clients.
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