Fighting Back, One Brothel Raid at a Time

[tabatha]

AGAINST my better judgment, I found myself the other day charging into a well-armed brothel in a police raid. But I was comforted to be with one of my heroes, Somaly Mam.

Somaly dedicates her life to battling forced prostitution, for she herself was sold as a child to a Cambodian brothel. After enduring torture and rapes, Somaly escaped and reinvented herself as an anti-trafficking activist.

It’s partly because of grass-roots activists like Somaly, both in the United States and abroad, that human trafficking is increasingly recognized as a central human rights challenge. A U.N. agency estimates that more than 12 million people are engaged in forced labor, including sexual servitude. Another U.N. report has estimated that in Asia alone, “one million children are involved in the sex trade under conditions that are indistinguishable from slavery.”

In the abstract, the 21st-century abolitionist movement sounds uplifting and even glamorous. But riding beside Somaly in her car toward a brothel bristling with AK-47 assault rifles, it was scary.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/opinion/sunday/kristof-fighting-back-one-brothel-raid-at-a-time.html?_r=1&src=tp

I hate to be sexist, but there is an underlying theme in this and the Penn abuse (and other places). Some men will do anything, and treat their victims as pieces of meat, to satisfy themselves. Even if they are "married".

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Rush Limbaugh. Dominican Republic.

Just wanted to get those terms in there. Gotta love da Google bomb!

[Angry Dragon]

2. Power and Control

[Odin2005]

3. K&R

[seabeyond]

4. 300k x's the number of kids they have + the unknowns

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2295194

300,000 unique computers identified by law enforcement trafficking in the most brutal and violent child pornography movies and images

[saras]

6. If one could unrec comments for inappropriately changing the subject, this would

The WHOLE POINT of the issue WORLDWIDE is that it is NOT about kids, it's about ADULTS CONTROLLING ADULTS, and the pretense that this is somehow acceptable because they're adults. They're NOT consenting adults, any more than the kids are consenting even though THEY seem to sometimes.

[seabeyond]

7. i absolutely thought it in line with what was being discussed.

there have been studies that say, 70-94% (depending on the study) of people in prostitution or porn where sexually assaulted. as far as i see, this is the first step of create supply for when kids are adults. i think it all ties in and feeds. i dont think one is necessarily willing when that is what they are created to be, regardless.

[Warpy]

5. The underlying theme is correct, a lot of men are like that

or the sex trade wouldn't exist as it does now with women and children in slavery, their orifices rented out to ten or more men a night.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. K&R