without reference to the fact that a) this is the Third World or b) this is an area where women in general are considered lower life forms, prostitutes or not or c) that criminalization in neighboring countries had also failed equally badly.
So I asked: if it were criminalized in Bangladesh tomorrow, what do you feel would change? The answer you didn't give is: nothing, other than making an already hellish existence worse.
Is this law in this country working to bring human dignity? No, because the problem is not with the trade but with the culture, which is so vehemently disrespectful of women that it does not enforce the protections already in place. Trafficking and pimping children is already illegal in that area. Pointing the finger at legalization does nothing to solve that other than ignore the actual problem (and make "rescue" groups wealthy).
Cultural causes... consider Afghanistan, where widowed women didn't used to be allowed to work and wound up begging in the street. That is a cultural cause. The refusal here to raise the minimum wage, because the wealthy view the poor as expendable labor-bots? Cultural cause. The amount of respect for the lowest strata of society shown by the people at the top is the root of that problem, and it varies widely from culture to culture. Make more sense now?
No, other apes don't, afaik. If your point here was that we're better than other apes, that's a fail.
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