the traffic in sex slaves
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threeplusfireNY Times article on the traffic in sex slaves in America
How many articles in major newspapers does it take? How many TV news exposes does it take?
The above is a great article because it deals with this issue, but there are some things wrong with it. The assumption that the internet has created this problem is patently ridiculous. People wanted to have sex with underage girls long before we had net porn.
Quote: Donna M. Hughes, a professor of women's studies at the University of Rhode Island and an expert on sex trafficking, says that prostitution barely existed 12 years ago in the Soviet Union. ''It was suppressed by political structures. All the women had jobs.''
The above is untrue. Prostitution was a problem in the USSR, but it was officially denied by the government because under the perfect structure of communism things like communism couldn't possibly exist. Prostitution was declared a byproduct of capitalism and therefore impossible. This is a documented issue, and frankly I'm weirded out that a university professor could make a statement like that.
How many articles in major newspapers does it take? How many TV news exposes does it take?
The above is a great article because it deals with this issue, but there are some things wrong with it. The assumption that the internet has created this problem is patently ridiculous. People wanted to have sex with underage girls long before we had net porn.
Quote: Donna M. Hughes, a professor of women's studies at the University of Rhode Island and an expert on sex trafficking, says that prostitution barely existed 12 years ago in the Soviet Union. ''It was suppressed by political structures. All the women had jobs.''
The above is untrue. Prostitution was a problem in the USSR, but it was officially denied by the government because under the perfect structure of communism things like communism couldn't possibly exist. Prostitution was declared a byproduct of capitalism and therefore impossible. This is a documented issue, and frankly I'm weirded out that a university professor could make a statement like that.
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