• Ffs, read more than the abstract.

      On average, countries where prostitution is legal experience larger reported human trafficking inflows.

      That “on average” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I know it’s really hard to read all the way to the end, but that’s where the pictures are. The regression chosen is linear, but the relationship looks to be anything but. Some countries have to substitution effect overshadow the scale effect, some see the opposite. Reducing it to legalized prostitution increases trafficking is facile at best.

      graph from cited source showing trafficking vs prostitution