Not all bad: Prop 36 passes: 3 strikes law reformed, fewer harsh sentences (The prison industry may have a little less power.)

However...

California Prop 35 is based on sex panic hysteria, and false statistics that vastly over-inflate the problem of "sex trafficking". (Which of course, rakes in those sweet federal dollars).

Prop 35 was just approved with 80% of the popular vote using California's controversial proposition system.

The false statistics behind Prop 35

(This article previously posted on r/mensrights): Village Voice: Women's Funding Network Sex Trafficking Study Is Junk Science

Summary of arguments against Prop. 35

Mountain of Evidence Against Prop 35

Even "slutwalkers" alarmed at this!

Erotic Service Provider Legal, Educational and Research Project: "Rather than working with sex worker communities to stop real human traffickers, far-left “feminist” radicals and far-right religious conservatives promote the flawed Proposition 35.

PDF: criticism of radical feminist "trafficking" propaganda

How Prop 35 works

  • Definition of "trafficking" may include anyone who has anything to do with a sex worker, even just giving them rides in a car, or receiving money from them for unrelated reasons.

  • People identified as "traffickers" required to register as sex offenders... including people convicted of prostituting themselves, expanding the reach of the registries. Once registered, they may be cut off from using internet and contact with children for life, even if their crime had nothing to do with internet or children.

  • Sex trafficking will be penalized more harshly than other kinds of trafficking, like forced labor... never mind that sex trafficking is only a small part of the overall problem, and a great majority of trafficking victims (like male laborers) will be ignored.

The truth about trafficking: it's not just about sexual exploitation. Feminist and faith groups define trafficking as forced sex work – a simplification that hinders help for victims of coerced labour

Accurate statistics on trafficking are difficult to come by, which does not stop some anti-trafficking groups from using them anyway. For instance, Shared Hope International, which is aggressively pursuing anti-trafficking legislation in 41 US states, claims "at least 100,000 juveniles are victimized" each year in the United States, and possibly as many as 300,000 – a figure that has been cited (repeatedly) by CNN. In truth, the figure is an estimate from a University of Pennsylvania report from 2001 (pdf) of how many youth are "at-risk" of what its authors call "commercial sexual exploitation of a child", based on incidences of youth homelessness. But it was not a count of how many youth are victims of "trafficking'", or involved in the sex trade.

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This purposeful conflation of sex work and trafficking distinguishes the many feminist and faith-based anti-trafficking groups that focus on sex-trafficking from groups that work directly with people who are involved in forced labor of all kinds, whether or not it involves sex work. This schism over who gets to define trafficking is about to come to a head for California voters in the form of Proposition 35, which, if passed this November, will set higher criminal penalties and fines for those who commit what the authors of the bill define as sex-trafficking, as opposed to labor trafficking. It will also force those convicted of "trafficking" to register as sex offenders and submit to lifelong internet monitoring – whether or not sex or the internet were involved in their case.

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"It redefines trafficking in a way that's incorrect, confusing, and terrible. It's highly problematic because it does this at the expense of all trafficking victims – it ignores labor trafficking victims."

In fact, so-called "sex-trafficking" constitutes only a small percentage of all forced labor, as estimated by the International Labor Organization. In their 2012 report, the ILO categorizes "forced sexual exploitation" as distinct from other kinds of forced labor, which, in some ways, is helpful as not all forced labor involves sex, and in other ways, adds more confusion to the issue (because what distinguishes "sex-trafficking" from sexual abuse is its occurrence within a workplace or work relationship). Still, of the nearly 21 million people the ILO estimates are forced laborers, 4.5 million are estimated to be what the ILO calls "victims of forced sexual exploitation" – that is, over three-quarters of the people around the globe estimated to be in forced labor are not involved in "forced sexual exploitation". By contrast, the ILO estimates that 2.2 million people worldwide are forced laborers in prisons or in the military – people whose stories we are quite unlikely to find on a highway billboard.