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Hotel-room porn increases the global demand for female flesh; traffickers help meet it Date published: 6/23/2008
(We regret the necessity to reproduce language in the following editorial that may offend some readers. However, the vocabulary of euphemism befriends the social evil we address.--Ed.) WELCOME to a night at the Pornographic pay-per-view movies watched in a hotel room and women and girls dragooned into whoredom before a camera are as connected as the links in a shackle. Although it is hard to prove that woman X in porn film Y is a victim of sexual trafficking, the roaring commercial demand for smut exemplified by hotel porn--by one estimate, a $500 million-per-year business--has stimulated a supply of unwilling human flesh so vast that some call this the second age of slavery. The International Labor Organization puts the number of people held in bondage--including sexual bondage--at 12.3 million. Of the 800,000 people annually trafficked across national borders, reports the State Department, most are females forced to earn money for their masters on their backs. Forced prostitution and the technology-triggered explosion of pornography--the $5 million to $10 million in U.S. retail sales generated by hard-core porn in 1970 is now matched by the annual profits of a single Internet site and represents just 1 percent of yearly hotel-TV sales--are parts of a sex industry that can't be "disaggregate[d]," says Ambassador Mark Lagon, director of the State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. "Pimps need new women and girls as the sex market flourishes." AGAIN AND AGAIN
exactly what century was this written?
Our society if judged by tv, movie, magazine and newspaper content is completely perverse. It's all about sex, drugs, violence, self expression, self indulgence and plain old me me me. Anything goes. And guess what...our expensive governments the world over do absolutely nothing about it. If you want change, get active and take measures to make governments enforce existing laws. Human traficing is illegal you know, slavery in the old south was not.
Valid points, if not a little over generalized. I find the focus in this commentary on human exploitation an outstanding example of how any industry can cause more harm than anyone would want to acknowledge. Diamond trade being another classic example. But just as blood diamond trafficking is still being fought, so will the battle against porn continue to be waged with little but frustration for those blessed enough to be steeped into a religion or belief that supersedes immoral pornographic needs.
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