{"id":1051,"date":"2004-08-31T11:08:33","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T19:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/31\/globalization-and-sexual-slavery\/"},"modified":"2004-08-31T11:08:33","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T19:08:33","slug":"globalization-and-sexual-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1051","title":{"rendered":"Globalization and Sexual Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought this was interesting enough to be worth quoting. From “Globalization and Violence Against Women,” by Lorraine Radford and Kaname Tsutsumi, in Women’s Studies International Forum <\/i>(Jan 2004).<\/p>\n

Sex tourism has grown as transport and communication links have developed. Japan has the largest population of sex tourists in the world, men travelling to the Philippines, to Thailand, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Australia to buy sex (ECPAT, 2003). Sex tourism enables men to cut the risks of incurring responsibilities from sex. Women and girls carry the financial, social and health care costs of sexual disease, HIV, having abortions or raising children. Few are likely to have funds to raise paternity suits or to ask for child support or damages. This leaves them at particular risk from men demanding unprotected and violent sex. Poverty is not the only factor though affecting this expansion in sex tourism. In the 1980s and 1990s the sex industry carried on growing in areas such as Thailand and the Philippines which had improved standards of living. The size of the sex trade in these areas means that prostitution can be an economically profitable area of work for some women and girls.<\/p>\n

With globalization the boundaries between entrapment and slavery have become more blurred. The sale of women into sexual slavery or for marriage has been made easier by information technology and the shrinking of space and time associated with globalization. Human trafficking into prostitution and sexual slavery is big business, bringing profits in the region of $7 billion per year in 1998, and it is growing worldwide (Kelly & Regan, 2000, p. 16). It is also less risky than trafficking drugs as the penalties in most countries are lower. Kelly and Regan (2000) have used the concept of a “continuum of control” to refer to the degrees of force, coercion and trickery used to get women into the sex trade. The continuum of control ranges from imprisonment to abduction to slavery through to debt bondage, deception and threats, but women are also procured through friendship and strategies that use love (Brown, 2000). There is no doubt that domestic violence contributes to the trafficking of women into the sex trade. Trafficked women are not always unaware of the risks they may face. Hope of a better life may outweigh the risks. This fudging of the boundaries between coercion, love and no options makes it easier to blame women for “trapping themselves” in sexual slavery.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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