Is All this Sex Trafficking emotional issue overblown vs. the facts?
Good show on Canadian SexTV:
The situation of migrant sex workers in the West may be much debated, but it is little researched. While generalizations about human trafficking and sex slaves abound in the media, the situations of many of the women who emigrate and end up doing sex work are much more complicated than is usually assumed. Many of the women choose to migrate in order to seek out a better life, more money or even adventure. SexTV speaks to both scholars and activists about the complexities surrounding migrant sex work at http://www.qtonline.com/archives/episodeArchivesDisplay.asp?episodeID=90&segmentID=226&seasonID=6
The show interviews many activists in Europe etc who say the majority of these sex slave trafficked women are very much choosing their profession and know what they are doing. Yes, they often pay off big debts to their handlers and work long hours, like the Eastern Europeans in Toronto.
But they are choosing this option and benefit from it in the long term. The media is over blowing the negativism toward trafficking that is filling the media often from those that think sex is dirty and terrible unless in a monogamous married relationship. Yes, I am sure there are abuses and real trafficking going on. That should be a crime if not consenting adults. But it has nothing to do with most prostitution. Trafficking is not what the media has made it out to be with the negative bias against" prostitution" in any form.
On the other hand there does seem to be more and more under aged involvement such as:
Conference at UT focuses on prostitution, sex trade http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050930/NEWS21/509300360/-1/NEWS all about ""Pimps, predators, pedophiles"
Maybe this is expected since teen age girls more and more don't see sex as such a big terrible thing like they are "supposed to" until the reach age 18.
These programs are not about "prostitution". They are about the brutality of human trafficking when the women do not give fully informed consent and about under aged prostitution, not the consenting adult private sexwork that accounts for probably about 90% of all sexwork at least in the U.S. and Canada.
But this is what is what the public hears about prostitution, not the 90% private adult sexworkers that no one wants to waste police and court resources going after for what they do in private with consenting adults and which is legal with no major secondary effects issues in almost all the world except the U.S.
Good show on Canadian SexTV:
The situation of migrant sex workers in the West may be much debated, but it is little researched. While generalizations about human trafficking and sex slaves abound in the media, the situations of many of the women who emigrate and end up doing sex work are much more complicated than is usually assumed. Many of the women choose to migrate in order to seek out a better life, more money or even adventure. SexTV speaks to both scholars and activists about the complexities surrounding migrant sex work at http://www.qtonline.com/archives/episodeArchivesDisplay.asp?episodeID=90&segmentID=226&seasonID=6
The show interviews many activists in Europe etc who say the majority of these sex slave trafficked women are very much choosing their profession and know what they are doing. Yes, they often pay off big debts to their handlers and work long hours, like the Eastern Europeans in Toronto.
But they are choosing this option and benefit from it in the long term. The media is over blowing the negativism toward trafficking that is filling the media often from those that think sex is dirty and terrible unless in a monogamous married relationship. Yes, I am sure there are abuses and real trafficking going on. That should be a crime if not consenting adults. But it has nothing to do with most prostitution. Trafficking is not what the media has made it out to be with the negative bias against" prostitution" in any form.
On the other hand there does seem to be more and more under aged involvement such as:
Conference at UT focuses on prostitution, sex trade http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050930/NEWS21/509300360/-1/NEWS all about ""Pimps, predators, pedophiles"
Maybe this is expected since teen age girls more and more don't see sex as such a big terrible thing like they are "supposed to" until the reach age 18.
These programs are not about "prostitution". They are about the brutality of human trafficking when the women do not give fully informed consent and about under aged prostitution, not the consenting adult private sexwork that accounts for probably about 90% of all sexwork at least in the U.S. and Canada.
But this is what is what the public hears about prostitution, not the 90% private adult sexworkers that no one wants to waste police and court resources going after for what they do in private with consenting adults and which is legal with no major secondary effects issues in almost all the world except the U.S.
