Matt Parker

Their eyes, they felt they clearly did not want to be there.

They did not want to be on that stage.

They didn't fit the bill of like a knowing and willing participant into the sex trade.

And I think we convolute these things where human trafficking hides in the sex trade.

Certainly there may be some women who are there knowing and willingly, and they're there by choice, and they have power to leave whenever they want.

But that wasn't the story of these women.

And I've been in over 2,000 brothels over the last 14 years undercover, and I have never heard a woman that I've asked, hey, do you like working here?

No one has said yes.

And so I think...

There's this idea we have, I think, of legal prostitution perhaps and women's empowerment.

And I'm all about women's empowerment if that's what they want.

Right.

I just have yet to meet somebody who's like, man, I love this job.

I'm not saying that doesn't exist.

I'm saying I've been in over 2,000 brothels.

And I've held thousands and thousands of hands in places where women are really disempowered.

So there is this narrative that I think in the West we often have.

that this problem is over there somewhere.

It's in Asia.

But I'm telling you, it is reaching into and across our borders and impacting our children.