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Ohio Mayor Warns That Ice Fishing Will Lead to Prostitution

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The Super Bowl promotes prostitution almost as much as ice fishing. Hudson, Ohio may open Hudson Springs Lake to Ice Fishing. Craig Shubert is unusually opposed to opening Hudson Springs Lake for ice fishing. Shubert states that opening up the lake for ice fishing will lead to prostitution.

The following is a city council video that reads like sketch comedy—Shubert’s comic delivery would be perfect, if this were comedy—the mayor warns that if you open up the lake to ice fishing, ice shantytowns will follow, and the​​n commercial sex. Ice shanties can be irresistible for sex workers, doesn’t it? There is nothing like feeling the cold water and fish guts to lift your mood!

“If you open this up to ice fishing, while on the surface it sounds good, then what happens next year—does someone come back and say I want an ice shanty?” Shubert was asked. Shubert responded, “And if then you permit ice fishing with Shanties, that then leads to another issue: prostitution.”

He added, “Just data points to think about.” Shubert seems to not understand the meaning of “data points”.

That the mayor’s comments come this week—Super Bowl week—is pretty perfect. This isn’t comedy or reality, but it sure seems brilliant. CommentOn another topic, we will discuss prostitution: The idea that large sporting events such as the Super Bowl attract sex traffickers.

Law enforcement continues to spread the myth that the Super Bowl is linked with sex trafficking every year. Some media outlets also pick up the story uncritically. Even though there is no evidence to support such an assertion, and it has been repeatedly debunked, this belief persists. Check out this list of debunked claims from 2020.

Because it provides cops with a reason to target adult sex workers or consensual sex, the Super Bowl sex–trafficking myth seems appealing. The feds also like this myth because they have a strong pretext to increase surveillance and security. If you look into any Super Bowl “sextrafficking” stings, you will see that it just leads to the arrests of many sex workers as well as their clients.

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