Sex slavery

These atrocities happening across the world make me so grateful to live such a privileged lifestyle.

I don't really view it as a matter of "critiquing" when it is innocent victims being defiled and deformed in their most sacred of places. Girls should be taught to love and respect themselves; therefore she can be loved and respected, as it is meant to be! Girls are precious beings, not commodities, products to be bought and sold, abused, raped, and kept in conditions unfit even for a dog! The rising rate of human trafficking and sex slavery around the world, at home and across the seas, should be raising red flags in the faces of world rulers and human rights organizations. Providing education and a release from the traps of poverty might be effective in ending some of the fast paced growth around the world of buying and selling young girls.

“Born into Brothels” is a valuable, experiential documentary immersing the viewer in the world of “several unforgettable children who live in the red light district of Calcutta, where their mothers work as prostitutes (http://www.kids-with-cameras.org/bornintobrothels/). A brash and revealing look into a world unimaginable to us, the film paints a portrait of old souls in the bodies of young children; young children who were never allowed the opportunity to be innocent or carefree. They hold wisdom of such things no child should have knowledge of, let alone be immersed in. Being burdened with unimaginable stresses and living in a world where human life is treated like meat to be bought and sold and the fresher the better. The virgin girls are the most valued and most valuable commodity of all; babies are conditioned to be sold away as sex toys to privileged men, a lot of times the customers are wealthy Westerners who travel overseas for this specific reason.

The insidious territory that is the World Wide Web is a tool in assisting the perpetuation. Convenient networking sites like craigslist.com are also conveneient for human trafficking; men can purchase kidnapped women as their own sex slaves, and this is happening to children, teenagers, and young women, as young as 11 or 12. Sex slavery is gaining media attention due its quickly rising rates, especially in home turf. Florida is third in the country for human trafficking reports (http://www.humantraffickinged.com/).

A great site is the Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking, where you can find info and ways to help. Everything from donating supplies to furnish apartments for victims, to active volunteering, to monetary aid is appreciated. Even if you have a microwave, towels, or bed sheets you don't want anymore you can help.

stophumantrafficking.org


MSNBC also made a documentary about sex slavery in the United States and makes sure it hits close to home, you can watch all the parts on youtube:

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