[lit-ideas] Re: [lit-id] Sex Slaves, NYT-attn Paul

  • From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:36:08 +0100

The trafficking thing isn't only about under-age prostitutes,
Paul.

but any reports about
> widescale sex-slave industries have to be discounted as being
blown
> out of proportion.

it may be your "sex-slave industry"'s the same size as ours.  I
have a UNICEF
 estimate of 250 trafficked children in the UK but a children's
charity here
thinks there are many more (not all these children are trafficked
into the UK).
There's a 1998 Home Office estimate of 1430 women trafficked into
the UK (low?).
20-40,000 are said to be trafficked into the US each year.

Judy Evans, Cardiff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Stone" <pas@xxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 11:20 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: [lit-id] Sex Slaves, NYT-attn Paul


> At 05:09 PM 6/1/2006, you wrote:
> >FYI --In today's NYT (Select): Many similar columns and
articles about
> >Canadian sex slaves, centered on Toronto and Vancouver--and
wherever paying
> >males are found. This "boyfriend" routine, combined with
unwitting
> >indentured servitude, is a typical scenario.In most instances
within Asia,
> >young girls are sold into sex slavery outright, by their
parents.
> > >ck
>
> this has got to be a fringe thing in Canada. We simply don't
have
> enough population to support a huge sex-slave industry. Think
about
> it, not only does one need to be willing to hire a prostitute
> (already a VERY small proportion of our population) you have to
go
> that extra mile and hire an illegal, underage one? Of course,
any
> trade such as this is a terrible thing, but any reports about
> widescale sex-slave industries have to be discounted as being
blown
> out of proportion.
>
> paul
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