really bad thing but, law enforcement really isn't trying to end trafficking, they are prohibitionist who want to end prostitution. According to the ILO, human trafficking for agriculture, factory and domestic work is 3 times that of sex work, but law enforcement doesn't seem to care about them. The big money in trafficking is made by the non-profits that are set up to fight trafficking. Besides writing a best selling memoir Somaly Mam took in over $30 million from fundraisers given by Susan Sarandon and other notables. Nicholas Kristof turned it into a brand until the Mam story broke. The links below are a good read on the topic.
Some of the statements are ridiculous. For example, "The average age of entry is 11-14 for boys and girls". There is an actual number in the report that was referenced; the age was 13 and in the report did not say that 13 was the "entry" age. Based on a small sample of people interviewed, 13 was the average age of first sexual contact; kissing, holding hands, feeling each other up...whatever. The age 13 number drives me crazy. It is thrown around as fact but, think about it. For everyone who turns pro at the age of 18, there has to be someone who started at age 8 and for everyone who started at are 21, there has to be a 5 year-old going into business.
As I wrote, they give a flying f**k about people who are trafficked, they are just old fashioned prohibitionist. I don't know why they think prohibition works. It was tried with alcohol and we know how that worked out. It has less of a chance of working with prostitution. The profession is in the DNA. It goes back at least as far as the Sumerians who regulated it around 1800 BCE.
And, there are some great whores who changed history -- Rahab the Harlot who in 1422 BCE helped Joshua take Jericho, Aspasia a teacher of Socrates who was so hot that Pericles had the law changed so he could marry her in 445 BCE. And the greatest of the greats The Empress Theodora, co-ruler of the Roman Empire who in 532 CE ended an uprising against her husband. He changed the law so he could marry a working girl. She was the force behind the building of Hagia Sophia. Theodora deserves some elaboration. The historian Procopius, a contemporary of Theodora wrote:
"Often she would go picnicking with 10 young men or more, in the flower of their strength and virility, and dallied with them all, the whole night through. When they wearied of the sport, she would approach their servants, perhaps 30 in number, and fight a duel with each of these; and even thus found no allayment of her craving".
A 40 to 1 gangbang....what a woman!
