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Trafficking is the exploitation of people, day after day, for years on end. . . .
Millions of victims, innocent and vulnerable, are trafficked into a life of extreme exploitation, violent abuse and slavery. At the heart of this 21st century epidemic are women, mainly young: most are under 24, some are as young as six, always poor, desperate and frightened. They make up 80 per cent of an unknown total number of people trafficked every year. Although the US State Department say it is around one million, the figure could just as easily be double that. What is known is that many women are forced into prostitution of some kind or another and sex slavery constituent parts of the burgeoning global commercial sex industry (CSI). The language of market fundamentalism facilitating a subtle acceptance of the criminal and inhumane; for what is commercial is good and industry must be encouraged at any cost; it feeds the economy, which must be constantly stoked in order to fuel economic growth, which as we know is the source of lasting happiness. So goes the dishonest, corporate political propaganda, rooted as it is in self-interest and thoroughly intoxicated by profit.
The CSI has been given a major boost by the Internet, providing as it (currently) does, an unregulated platform for pornography. The pornographic material freely floating around cyberspace is beyond shocking. The statistics are startling: over 12 per cent of all internet sites deal in pornography of one kind or another totaling 420 million. Every month there are 72 million worldwide (primarily male) visitors to pornographic websites packed with explicit pornographic images, many showing abusive practices, which feed into and strengthen a conditioned view that defines women in a purely sexual manner and promotes the idea of a woman as a sexual object or commodity to be used for pleasure, exploited and abused fully and totally. The proliferation of online porn is a major factor in the ever-growing commodification and sexualization of women and young girls. While this is not necessarily new, the accessibility is. Extreme sexual behaviour, such as paedophilia, bestiality and rape, that saturates the internet encourages obsessive behaviour and is a crippling, poisonous ingredient in the lives not only of girls and women, but also of men, young and not so young. . . .
Returnees, or broken-in-girls, as well as taking on the role of guardians or jailers in destination countries, are used to persuade young girls to become commercial sex workers. Sex traffickers often train girls themselves, raping them and teaching them how to behave with clients, reports Victor Malerek. The only way some women can escape their own enslavement is to return home and recruit young girls. An Albanian woman told the Guardian how she returned to her home town and told ex-school friends that there were great opportunities in the UK for them, you know, as waitresses and even as dancers I felt like I had stuck a knife in my own stomach, knowing what I was taking them to, but I could not stand one more day [in the brothel].
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ismnotwasm
(41,965 posts)Who would defend this too.
BainsBane
(53,012 posts)They go to great lengths to insist it's not relevant to their consumption of porn or prostitution.
ismnotwasm
(41,965 posts)Corporate Porn leeches out the erotic and replaces it corporate sex. (not SMBD-- that's a whole different discussion--except it too, is becoming corporate)
When a human being is purchased, no one looks too hard at the background. The only way to stop trafficking is to go after johns and throw their fucked up entitled asses in prison
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)They would make distinctions without differences like with legal prostitution and sex trafficking. It's still buying and selling of human beings.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)like the egregious thread wherein too many have been decrying the alleged assault on first amendment rights (never mind that the UK is passing this law...), because rape porn production will be punishable by three years in prison.
BainsBane
(53,012 posts)while defending that rape porn.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)repeatedly that you were missing the point, as though he's some expert on "simulated rape" porn.
Did you see the question I posed to the first man who said this was an assault on first amendment rights? (Not for a moment do they understand that the entire brouhaha is about Great Britain, not the United States!) I did not get a response, which doesn't surprise me.
Also, why don't these rape porn defenders see that they are tacitly admitting to being rape porn consumers? They act as though they are into BDSM and other "avant garde" sexual acts, as though such interests makes them attractive as potential partners. Ick.
Actually, I envision a marginally educated, hygiene challenged, relatively misogynistic type, sitting at a keyboard, staring obsessively at hours of porn--all the while, believing that prurient interests justify conflating power and control issues with sexual intimacy.
BainsBane
(53,012 posts)is defined by one's absolute obliviousness to the real life effects of the material they consume on women in the porn as well as in society at large. As though being into rape porn makes them studs or something. Your vision sounds a closer approximation to reality.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)submissive, rape porn and then picture him coming into your space. i get the hugest.... eeeew.
it is like seeing my puppy eating dog shit and then wanting to give me kisses.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)abused, beaten to feed their addiction of demeaning, humiliating women
chervilant
(8,267 posts)those poor unfortunates. As I said above, the ones who don't get that rape porn demeans and humiliates women are incapable of understanding that power and control issues do NOT have to be conflated with sexual intimacy.