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In a puff piece about Sheila Jeffreys' new book here , Bindel cheerfully accepts Jeffreys' claim that heterosexual marriage is closely related to prostitution. She also uncritically accepts Jeffreys' claim that 5% of the Netherlands' GDP is prostitution-related; if you read further, it is clear that Jeffreys regards any economic activity in which prostitution has any role as totally implicated. Thus, taxi-drivers, and presumably other forms of transport, move prostitutes and punters around and are so profiting from the sex industry. I'd call this shoddy research, and even shoddier scholarship, but I am hopelessly biased against both women...

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Don't get me started on Sheila Jeffreys' 'research'! She repeatedly gets characterised as 'a historian' when she is nothing of the kind. (Maybe I'm prejudiced by having had to expend entirely too much wordage in books and articles actually addressing the whomping great holes in and bias of her arguments.)

I also noted that Jeffreys/Bindel included female-owned and friendly sex shops (e.g. Beate Uhse) under the heading of sex trafficking. Some of these things are not like others of these things.