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Aylee -> RE: Sex Slavery in The US: Why can't American Men Keep it in their Pants? (5/18/2011 8:50:32 AM)
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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
I did a google search for sex slavery in the United States because it is a huge human rights issue that is currently going on here. I found scant news on the topic in the last year. It is an epidemic around the country in every mid sized and large city you can think of. There have been documentaries about it, there have been many arrests being made, but yet it still flourishes here.... why? Because we pretty much do not give a fuck about prostitutes in this country, that's why.
The laws against pandering and pimping are extraordinarily lax, the bad guys continually get away, or they pay their way out of it. We just don't care. The other part of this? The men that go to these places for some exotic "Asian" sex, even knowing these women do not have a choice, are the root of the problem. And there must be a lot of men out there that don't give a fuck, because business is booming.
There are a lot of decent American men out there who would never use one of these establishments, but there are a hell of a lot that willingly, knowingly, and with total disregard that do.
So, our legal system is complicit because they know it is happening, and yet remain so-called powerless to do dick about it, and a great number of men are furthering this human rights abuse right here in the United States.
Pull the mote out of your own eye before you rag on the mote in your neighbor's. I really do not want to hear about how what a goodly number of American men are doing can be "justified" by what people do in other parts of the world...
Actually, it is a world-wide epidemic. It started becoming worse in the 70's. One of the causes is loans to developing countries and the transnational movement of companies from developed to developing countries for a workforce.
Gendered cultures and economic inequity are also causes.
While all systems of commercial activity differ because of various conditions, the supply and demand of women and children for sex is explicitly linked to gender. As many scholars have noted, the sex industry itself is a perfect example of gendered consumption patterns. Men hold most of the world’s wealth and men want sex. Women comprise most of the world’s poor and women want money to survive. Thus, the demands of men for sexual services are provided by women and by children in this gendered economic system. (Chang, Grace. “Global Exchange: The World Bank, ‘Welfare Reform,’ and the Trade in Migrant Women.” Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000.)
Julia, you should also look at the role that the World Bank and the World Trade Organization has played in the increase of sexual slavery.
Saying that the cause is that men cannot keep it in their pants and legalizing prostitution is the solution is far too simplistic and does not address the actual problems and causes of sex trafficking.
With a bit of research you can do much better.
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