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You misunderstand. One of the reasons the AOC is higher than is realistic/appropriate is specifically so that it may be used as a gotcha in this way, in combination with...
His crime was that, through this action, he made the price of sex legible. That is the true crime of prostitution.
Merely putting a price on sex devalues sex, and thus is an offense against the sex whose entire evolutionary-biological specialization revolves around selling themselves to the highest bidder, regardless if they need to use that capacity or not. Trads and progs understand that intuitively, as they both agree that the social role of men is to work hard so they can buy sex from women, and the social role of women is to be maximally deserving of that price (certain progressives will even just outright state they "don't owe you femininity" as a direct attempt to re-negotiate "maximally deserving" in their favor- contrast the well-trod stories of how 19th-century traditionalists extracted owed, outstanding femininity from women they have
an exclusive prostitution agreement withmarried, usually with the same pimp hand).Younger women are more feminine, thus more desirable, thus the AOC is very literally a minimum wage. Therefore, hiring one, either knowingly or not, is now explicitly violating the [female] labor laws as well as implicitly doing so as explained above- it's a natural focus point, and over-emphasized because what women [and men] actually want punished is devaluing women [and daughters] that way, but it's also not something they can realistically make illegal (compare why Al Capone gets maximally prosecuted for tax evasion where the actual crime was "he was a gangster", or why Tesla gets maximally prosecuted for a black guy saying 'nigga' in some meeting where the actual crime was "being disliked by Blue tribe").
Sex trafficking is bad because it means domestic women lose out to more-feminine-for-cheaper foreign women, just like how other illegal immigration is bad because it means domestic men lose out to more-masculine-for-cheaper foreign men. This is why women prefer illegal immigration and hate purchased/captured (by some constraint of reality, financial in this case) brides, and the ones that rent themselves hourly are far more destructive because of the above.
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