It still amazes me that this stuff is so widespread here an now!
I think of human or sex trafficking as something that happened in the dark ages, or in third world countries. It’s so messed up
It has always been prevalent.
But until the Reagan administration gathered a diverse group of reporters together and showed them pictures of tens of thousands of children being used by pedophiles which had been siezed from an off shore computer bulletin board by Interpol, the prevailing thought was that hushing these things up to prevent a panic was in the best interest of the public.
You might say that the Ed Meese Commission On Pornography (which had broad authority, but was primarily aimed at pedophiles) engineered a change in how these things were handled by journalists and law enforcement.
At any rate, none of this is new. The change is that it has been hauled out of the darkness, into the light of day.