If you think prostitution is no biggie, as you suggest. Then I would ask you here and now, When did you try it?

This is poor logic.

I personally wouldn't be willing to have gay sex for money. Or eat poop for money. Or read luke stokes posts for money, but my unwillingness to do so doesn't mean that I give up my right to advocate that others, who are willing to endure these things, be allowed to do so.

I also don't smoke pot. But i think it should be legal... i just don't see how it makes sense that you should have to committ a crime to think it shouldnt be a crime.

ALso, i should point out where the "trafficking" charge came from, because some of you might not have picked up on it in the article.

One of these prostitutes was underage. The mustafa guy "trafficked" her in that he gave her a ride to and from her dates, and transporting her makes it fit the elements for human trafficking under michigan statues. AFAICT, no one was ever alleging that the prostitutes were being held against their will and compelled to do this (as the term trafficking might lead you to believe)

Not that employing an underage prostitute is necessarily a stand up thing, just that the charge itself is misleading.