tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post2486073715216142216..comments2024-02-25T05:50:30.285-05:00Comments on The Human Trafficking Project: Behind the myth of the "happy hooker"JHakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141025201617247428noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-77985491333308275512011-04-14T13:47:25.306-04:002011-04-14T13:47:25.306-04:00Dear Spartacus,
I will substantiate my criticisms...Dear Spartacus,<br /><br />I will substantiate my criticisms, if you like. Farley's work has been thoroughly critiqued by many social scientists and other people involved in the anti-trafficking debate. The best critique has been offered up by Ronald Weitzer, here: <br /><br />http://web.archive.org/web/20060111065947/http://www.woodhullfoundation.org/content/otherpublications/WeitzerVAW-1.Thaddeus Gregory Blanchettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09359423010378429288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-7660221255721436112010-01-26T20:38:36.894-05:002010-01-26T20:38:36.894-05:00Dr. Blanchette is entitled to his opinion, but I a...Dr. Blanchette is entitled to his opinion, but I am wondering why HTP chose to feature his unsubstantiated criticisms and assumptions as part of the post, rather than leaving them in the comments section. By giving Blanchette a prominent position to deride the survey by Dr. Farley, HTP is in essence advising readers to disregard the article itself. Hardly what I would consider a responsible Jay Taberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367021003977811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37905087.post-21178771339620798002010-01-22T22:22:58.783-05:002010-01-22T22:22:58.783-05:00The so-called "nation wide survey" refer...The so-called "nation wide survey" refered to here was conducted by Melissa Farley, IIRC, and has severe methodological problems. To put not too fine a point on it, Farley mostly interviewed prostitutes who were in rescue organizations. A similar analogy would be studying marriage by only interviewing women who were in shelters for battered women.<br /><br />Dr. Thaddeus Blanchette, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com