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11 Post author: michaelcurzi 04 May 2013 02:51AM

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Comment author: DanielLC 04 May 2013 06:45:20AM 0 points [-]

It seems pretty obvious that it would. Those two jobs compete for the same workforce. What's less obvious is exactly how much child prostitution it leads to. My instinct is that the first order effects are more important.

Of course, finding reliable evidence that it's true and finding reliable evidence of the extent to which it's true are pretty much the same thing, so this doesn't matter all that much.