Sex Trafficking in the U.S.

[friendz4evr]

Today's New York Times contains an opinion piece on Asian sex trafficking, calling it "Today's Hidden Slave Trade".

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/27/opinion/27herbert.html?th&emc=th

It ends with the following:

Those who think that most of the women in prostitution want to be there are deluded. Surveys consistently show that a majority wants very much to leave. Apologists love to spread the fantasy of the happy hooker. But the world of the prostitute is typically filled with pimps, sadists, psychopaths, drug addicts, violent criminals and disease.

Jody Williams is a former prostitute who runs a support group called Sex Workers Anonymous. Few women want to become prostitutes, she told me, and nearly all would like to get out.

“They want to quit for the obvious reasons,” she said. “The danger. The physical and emotional distress. The toll that it takes. The shame.”

My question is, Is this also true in the Canadian context? Both as to trafficking and as to how SP's feel?

 

[Capoeira]

I'm pretty damn sure that every escort that posts on this forum is not a "slave".

amirite?

 

[ig-88]

That would pretty much be true for any nation ... If you only speak with streetwalkers and MPs, which is probably what was done.

And the media just makes the assumption that that's all there is to prostitution.

The high-end escort services and indys don't satisfy the media's fear-mongering agenda.

 

[skypilot]

I think that most AMPs have connections to the slave trade as did many of the EE places in the past.
If a woman can't speak English and is unable to function by herself in our society, the chances of her having any free will drops tremendously.

 

[Capoeira]

The media is always going to feed the public useless articles that proves general stereotypes.

People are much happier when their core beliefs are validated by the media!

Amirite?

 

[Ariel Sanchez]

There is definitely a difference between street walkers and high end escorts. There's a difference in getting picked up at the corner and being paid $50 for a BJ, versus getting picked up in an Austin Martin and taken to Mortons and getting $1000 to eat steak, drink wine and have mutual and safe "fun".

I think that Canada and the States in this regard are completely different.

xoxoArielxoxo

 

[CUTTERBUCK]

Make that Aston Martin

 

[hairyfucker]

Maybe she meant Austin Powers.

 

[Ariel Sanchez]

Ya Aston Powers picked me up in a Austin Martin...lol

xoxoArielxoxo

 

[papasmerf]

There is definitely a difference between street walkers and high end escorts. There's a difference in getting picked up at the corner and being paid $50 for a BJ, versus getting picked up in an Austin Martin and taken to Mortons and getting $1000 to eat steak, drink wine and have mutual and safe "fun".

I think that Canada and the States in this regard are completely different.

xoxoArielxoxo

A grand to eat

I want a few hours not a marriage followed by divorce