| What a world we live in, a male-framed
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| | benefits here, who maintains the upper
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| world, where global economics sets in
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| | hand in the power system, and in whose
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| concrete a system of winners and
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| | favor the unsavory practice of
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| losers--with poverty, disadvantage, and
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| | legitimized sexual abuse is weighted. Men
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| minimal choices for many as the
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| | set the parameters. Men establish the
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| consequence. The climate is ripe for
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| | power relations. Men demand and obtain
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| men's sexual exploitation of women
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| | exploitative sexual "services" from
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| without bounds, abuse of the worst kind.
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| | women: men only have to negotiate the
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| Women are set up to lose in this system,
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| | price.
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| and like buzzards circling around an
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| | The lack of outrage against sex slavery
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| ailing member of the herd, businessmen
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| | and the global system of prostitution is
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| prey upon the globe's most disadvantaged
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| | deafening. Laws are inadequate, few
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| women, entrapping them within their web
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| | traffickers are investigated, and a
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| of despicable sex slavery enterprises,
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| | pitiful number of convictions ensue. A
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| trading women far and wide as sex
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| | mild slap on the wrist is often the
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| chattels.
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| | harshest penalty, sending very
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| In this globalized economy, impoverished
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| | encouraging messages to those men poised
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| countries have been increasingly forced
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| | to enter the lucrative market.
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| to accommodate multinational large-scale
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| | Traffickers are linked to sophisticated,
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| farming and short-lived manufacturing
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| | professionally organized criminal
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| enterprises. This has resulted in social
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| | networks worldwide, involving immigration
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| dislocation, escalated unemployment, and
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| | and government officials where kickbacks
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| increasing poverty, impacting hardest on
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| | are many: sexual favors, money or, at the
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| women. Lower statused, less educated,
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| | very least, a simple strengthening of the
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| with limited work options, women are the
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| | system of male sexual exploitation of
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| most vulnerable to the systems of
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| | women. As lawmakers and law enforcers
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| exploitation. They earn only a portion of
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| | themselves are predominantly male, sexual
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| the male’s meager wage, are last hired
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| | exploitation practices go unrecognized as
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| and first fired and when, as is not
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| | human rights violations. The problem is
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| uncommon, men’s warring is added as a
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| | dismissed as harmless male business.
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| demon overlay, the cumulative effect of
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| | In a recent Australian case, Gary Glasner
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| widowhood is devastating. Partnerless,
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| | was charged with prostituting and falsely
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| poor women, often with dependent
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| | imprisoning 40 Thai women.
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| children, are socially abandoned. Men,
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| | Despite extensive evidence of sexual
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| quick to see an advantage, wave a carrot
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| | slavery, the charge of false imprisonment
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| of economic "opportunity" in front of
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| | was dropped "on a technicality." All but
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| women's noses: male money for women's
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| | two of the women were deported. The two
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| flesh, traded around the globe.
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| | who were left to give evidence had little
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| Today, this trade in women’s bodies is
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| | knowledge of Australian legal procedure.
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| a global business grossing over six
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| | Isolated, threatened, easily intimidated,
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| billion dollars annually for the
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| | they were no match for hard punching,
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| traffickers, and growing fast. The UN
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| | legal professionals.
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| estimates that about four million women
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| | Meanwhile, for "Mr. Big" of the
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| are being trafficked as sex slaves. Some
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| | operation, the reported link to
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| 50,000 women are brought into the US
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| | international traders boasting government
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| every year, predominantly from the
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| | and immigration connections, it is
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| Ukraine, Albania, the Philippines,
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| | business as usual. The public yawned over
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| Thailand, Mexico and Nigeria. Women from
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| | newspaper reports of excessive male
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| China, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea,
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| | behavior and the deportation of
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| Colombia and Vietnam are used in
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| | anonymous, Asian prostitutes. The issue
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| Australian brothels, legal and illegal.
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| | of prostitution per se also remains
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| Traffickers sell the women into the
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| | unchallenged: the Immigration Department
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| prostitution network for $4000 - 5000 for
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| | filed another folder, stamped "closed."
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| short-term contracted work. The women are
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| | Melbourne hardly missed a beat.
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| then forced to pay off the fee for their
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| | But what of these women? For the millions
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| "owners" by free "servicing" of up to 500
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| | of women, predominantly poor, often sold
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| men, in 12-plus hour shifts, seven days a
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| | off by a male family member to work off a
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| week, before earning a low fee for sexual
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| | family debt, or chosen to be the family
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| services.
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| | expatriate breadwinner, the experience of
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| This male sexual violation of women is
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| | sex slavery is physically and
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| receiving the highest sanction. The
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| | psychologically debilitating. Women often
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| United Nations, in a 1998 report by its
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| | lured from their home country with
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| official labor agency, the International
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| | promises of legitimate work are sold like
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| Labor Organization (ILO), blatantly
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| | cattle, imprisoned, sexually violated and
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| legitimated sexual exploitation as an
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| | returned home shamed and poor, many
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| appropriate, key component of gross
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| | suffering from AIDS or other sexually
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| national product, calling upon
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| | transmitted diseases. Many go back home
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| governments of poorer countries to take
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| | to die.
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| economic advantage of "The Sex Sector":
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| | In foreign lands, ignorant of the law,
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| regulated, expanded, and taxed. The cost
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| | often having little grasp of the local
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| for women was conspicuously missing from
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| | language, women are hardly positioned to
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| the economic equation: no mention of the
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| | demand their human rights. They are
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| rapes, beatings, imprisonments, sexual
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| | easily held captive under lock and key,
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| abuse, servitude, illness, and the
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| | in overcrowded rooms, denied access to
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| permanent destruction of millions of
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| | passports, and forced to perform
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| women's souls.
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| | unprotected, debasing and life
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| One wonders how such an insidious "meat
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| | threatening sexual acts. When the time is
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| trade," a unique feature of "first world"
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| | right for their "owners," when short-term
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| male ingenuity, could be tolerated in
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| | work visas expire or the women are judged
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| "developed," "civilized" societies. If
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| | to be past their use by date, the
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| one looks below the surface, just a
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| | appropriate authorities are informed and
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| tissue thickness deep, it is not
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| | the women are deported, often at
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| difficult to see the neat male sleight of
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| | taxpayers' expense. Lives are permanently
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| hand that keeps women in their sexually
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| | shattered.
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| violated place. While the dirty little
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| | Let outrage roar! When will men take a
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| male business of sex trafficking is
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| | good look at themselves in the mirror and
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| sliming the globe, the practice of males
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| | act on what they see? Men have to name
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| prostituting women (and children, and
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| | men as the perpetrators of this system of
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| less frequently, other men) is presented
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| | sexual abuse and it is men who have to
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| as clean: a legitimate career choice for
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| | stop this practice. The silence and
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| "sex workers." But it is obvious who
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| | collusion must end now.
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