I don't even want to know how you consider a child prostitution charge "average or not special".
Incorrect. Sex trafficking includes (among other commercial coerced sex) any instance of prostitution which involves anything other than free and full consent from someone with capacity to consent to sex; minors by definition lack capacity to consent, so pimping a minor is an offense which falls completely within the bounds of sex trafficking. (Unlike simple pimping, solicitation, etc., which may overlap with sex trafficking, but also include acts which are not sex trafficking.)
This stuff happens; just like murder, rape, arson, etc.
It's irrational to get upset about someone using a common idiom to convey that this isn't a typical instance of child prostitution.
Child sexual exploitation. The vast majority of children involved aren't there through free choice.
I didn't intend to imply otherwise.
Notably, in the UK some police forces were saying that children could chose to become prostitutes, and these children were promiscuous.
Why the anti-American sentiment?
Shielding people from reality doesn't change it, just makes it's ultimate realization more painful.
I've just been seeing a bit too much 'America is evil/bad' lately, consider me triggered :).
It is very rare that we find children who freely make that choice.
Protecting children from that harm --and it is very severe harm-- is important.
And I didn't say "never", I said in the vast majority.
And the child we're talking about here is 15, not 16 or 17.
Your comment was wrong on every point.
FWIW, you said 'Notably, in the UK some police forces were saying that children could chose to become prostitutes, and these children were promiscuous.', implying that what they said was incorrect, and children could never choose to become prostitutes.
If you only meant the 'vast majority' of children doesn't want to become prostitutes, then I don't know what the point of the quote was.
Similarly, nothing about your parent post mentions an age range more specific than 'children', which by default I take to mean anyone legally underage and thus not allowed to make decisions.
15, 16, 17, what's the difference? Somewhere between 12 and 18 both boys and girls become interested in sex; some of them will want to use it to gain higher status.