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arioch36
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3589
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 2:10 pm Post subject: The truth of Prostitution |
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here are some news clips, you can look up the articles. Every country commonly "imports" women from other countries, the new women are helpless. The slave trade perfers younger, because it is easier to brainwash and coerce them. The same slave trade goes on whether prostitutuion is legal or illegal, so legalizing makes little difference unless you really believe that it is okay for a 50 year old CEO to be having sex with a 13 year old girl in Japan
Prostitutes who weren't directly forced into prostitution usually were sexually abused in their family or by family friends. Powerful male members in a male dominated society routinely force woman to give them sexual favours. i could go on and on.
JAPAN
Another major problem is the enormous pressures inflicted on Japanese students to do their best in school. The latest poll, conducted by the government�s Management and Coordination Agency in 1996, found that only forty-four percent of Japanese under twenty were actually happy with their lives, and sex is one form of rebellion to what Japanese psychiatrist Masao Miyamoto calls the "straitjacket society" (Hills 1-2). Under the pressure of a rigorous school system and extreme family and social expectations, it is easy for many teenagers to mentally collapse and simply stop caring. If the future is not worth thinking about, they begin to concentrate on the pleasure of the moment, and selling their bodies is an activity that yields them that pleasure
UNITED STATES
Immigration and Naturalization Service agents in the last six months have searched more than 20 massage parlors suspected of offering indentured or enslaved women for prostitution in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Dallas, Houston and New Orleans, officials said. Sharon Rummery, a spokeswoman for the INS in San Francisco, declined comment, saying, "there's a case in progress." Steven Gruel, a prosecutor with justice's Organized Crime Strike Force in San Francisco who is assigned to the case, also declined comment.
The investigation follows prosecutions for such crimes in New York, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Women in several cases told investigators of being beaten, raped, burned with cigarettes and ordered to have sex with hundreds of men to work off transportation "fees" of up to $60,000, court records show.
When she was 27, a Martinez judge sent her to the Discovery House drug treatment program, which proved to be a turning point. She went on to spend three years at Delancey Street, work at Glide Memorial Church and enroll at Walden House.
"Ever since then, I've been dealing with one issue after another," she said. "It's been like shedding skin." Suarez now works at Promise, a nonprofit San Francisco group that helps women break out of prostitution.
On Dec. 6, she told her story to the General Assembly of the United Nations at a hearing on international trafficking of women and children. She called the occasion "a very blessed and holy day for me." She'd come a long way from the shed in Puerto Rico, but was still dealing with the damage. "I want a normal life," she said. "I want to be a human being again."
San Francisco Examiner
FIND SEX, Prostitutes, Prostitution and Brothels WORLD WIDEJapan
... There are more than 150,000 foreign women in prostitution in Japan; more than half are Filipinas and 40
Prostitution in Japan
... it is legal in Tokyo for men to have sex with children as young as the age of twelve. Similarly, under an Antiprostitution Law in Japan, prostitution is deemed ...
www.iastate.edu/~rhetoric/105H17/nnguyen/cof.html
Tokyo Under Fire for Turning Blind Eye to Trafficking in Women
... young women, including minors, and sell them into prostitution. ... Japan is a haven for human trafficking," says ... at the Colombian embassy in Tokyo, which is ...
www.iabolish.com/news/press-coverage/2003/ft02-06-03.htm
September 4, 1998 Op-Ed
Enjo kosai: teen prostitution, a reflection of society's ... juvenile welfare recently came into effect in Tokyo. ... schools and communities throughout Japan in the ...
www.weekender.co.jp/LatestEdition/980904/oped.html
250 Suspects Caught in Prostitution Crackdown
... on Tuesday in a joint campaign against organized cross-border prostitution. ... in seriously cracking cross-border crime in Guangdong Province and ... (China Daily May ...
www.china.org.cn/english/2002/May/32272.htm
AIDS News: China
... Prostitution is widespread in Shenzhen, and last week the China Daily reported that 21 people ... AIDS Spreads in South China's Guangdong Province Jan 31, 1997. ...
www.utopia-asia.com/aidschi.htm
Worst Form of Child Labour - China: Global March Against Child ...
... A recent survey in Guangdong, Shandong, Liaoling ... According to official estimates, there are now some 1 million women and children in prostitution in China. ...
www.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/china.html
AIDS in China: From Drugs and Blood to Sex
... Guangdong and Hainan report the highest incidence of STD's, although Shanghai, Guangdong and Hainan ... In China, Wang argued, prostitution is widespread and ...
www.usembassy-china.org.cn/english/sandt/hivsextrans.htm
Ex-Pastor Gets Jail in Sex Misconduct Case
ALLEGAN, Mich. (AP) -- The former pastor of a nondenominational church pleaded no contest to attempted sexual misconduct with a 13-year-old girl and was sentenced to a year in jail.
China Peoples Republic
... women and girls as young as 15 are going for prostitution, many with ... a new hybrid that mutated in the intensively farmed livestock of China's Guangdong province ...
www.chinadailysport.com/s/chinapeoplesrepublic
NOT ENOUGH?
Romania
... in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany and Amsterdam, Holland. ... GHANA, slavery and rape of women and children. INDIA, facts on prostitution of women and children. ...
www.paralumun.com/issuesromania.htm
Press Release (ILO/97/3) : AMSTERDAM CONFERENCE TARGETS CHILD ...
... The opening ceremony will take place in Amsterdam's Koepelkerk Conference ... including debt bondage, the use of children for prostitution, pornography or in ...
www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/97-3.htm
Commercial Sex Information Service: Legal Analysis - Essays, ...
... Doorninck, Mr A. de Graaf Foundation, Dutch Institute for Prostitution Issues, Amsterdam. ... Sexual Trafficking and Forced Prostitution of Children By Penelope ...
www.walnet.org/csis/papers
Sex slavery racket a growing concern in Latin America
... of Fundac�on Esperanza, or Hope Foundation, with offices in Amsterdam and Bogot� ... the first study of trafficking women and children for prostitution in the ...
www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/01/11/p7s1.htm
References on working children in India
... Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit Te Amsterdam. ... The Exploitation of The Child' and 'Child Labour and Child Prostitution', edited by P ... Working children in Urban India ...
www.cwa.tnet.co.th/references/India.htm
Sex Slavery: International Steps are Needed to Curb What Has ...
... their own neighbourhood in the red-light district of Amsterdam in the ... the UN's optional protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child ...
www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/inequal/0710sexslavery.htm
Donna M
... industries also leads to an increase in child prostitution. The Amsterdam-based NGO ChildRight reported that from ... 2001 the number of Dutch children abused and ...
www.house.gov/international_relations/107/hugh0618.htm
Worst Form of Child Labour - Romania: Global March Against Child ...
... Homeless children in Romania ... been trafficked under false pretenses and forced into prostitution in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany and Amsterdam, Holland. ...
www.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/romania.html cached
Donna M
... industries also leads to an increase in child prostitution. The Amsterdam-based NGO ChildRight reported that from ... 2001 the number of Dutch children abused and ...
www.house.gov/international_relations/107/hugh0618.htm
Global Sex Slavery
... international trade ill women and children as slaves for ... have been sold worldwide for prostitution since the ... bound for brothels in America, Amsterdam and Japan ...
www.webcom.com/hrin/magazine/july97/sexslave.html
Tourism and Children in Prostitution (PDF)
... factors to the sexual exploitation of children. ... sex tourist destinations (for example Amsterdam, New Orleans ... sex tourists and export child prostitution to other ...
www.csecworldcongress.org/PDF/en/Stockholm/Background_reading/Theme_papers/Theme%20paper%20Tourism%2 01996_EN.pdf |
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Roger
Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2003 3:24 am Post subject: |
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You are a diligent researcher, Chris, but to what end? Those reports on prostitution in China are nothing new to me. Especially in Guangdong, and in Shenzhen prostitution has been rife for decades, man!
Saddest fact is that I have known these things while Chinese preferred to ignore them.
The word "prostitute" in Chinese - the vernacular refers to them as 'chicks' - is not well-liked, the more so if it is being pronounced by a waiguoren. Are we supposed to know about China's netherworld? It would cause the country's leaders a tremendous 'loss of face'.
China was very strait until the end of the 1970's, adopting an almost Calvinist-prudish outlook. The sole exception was the Helmsman himself who maintained a coterie of young girls for his carnal pleasures everywhere in the country.
It is the hypocrisy of the Chinese that is to criticise, not the fact that women prostitute themselves. And, of course, the pimps (where they operate).
BUt outside of most karaoke bars, there are few such men! In my estimate, more than half of CHina's prostitutes are freelancers!
And, how about women who sell themselves into marriage? Isn't that a sort of selling oneself for money?
I have a part-time job with a private school run by a mainlander who has a local wife AND a Hong Kong one - or se he bragged!
True or not, I have no reason to disbelieve him. It is common knowledge that many mainland women marry an already-married Hongkonger. They mostly do so in a calculating way.
In my estate, I know several lonely girls owning a villa under their own name. NOt working, but gambling every day. How did they amass their money and become landladies?
Their boyfriends or absent husbands bought these properties.
One of them recently approached me to help her locate her "HOng Kong husband's house". SHe showed me an address in Central: A lawyer's office. I suppose that's where he works.
She wanted to visit him - she is now mother of a 2-month old baby! And she knew her HK husband had a wife there... |
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PanamaTeacher
Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 278 Location: Panama
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 2:04 am Post subject: |
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Roger, this is a good point. |
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PanamaTeacher
Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 278 Location: Panama
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 3:23 am Post subject: |
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Arioch do you have statistics on prostitutes from the US being brought into China? I hear this is lowering the standards in China; is that true or just a rumor? |
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Linda L.
Joined: 03 Jul 2003 Posts: 146
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 3:57 am Post subject: |
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Why do foreign men working in China have such a fascination with prostitution and have to post so many threads on this subject.
Do you just have a prurian interest or do you have a solution to offer? No, just rehashing the same old stuff, over and over again.
Before you express any more opinions about a subject you have little or no experience with, other than possibly as a "john" why not abandon this topic to the gutter where it belongs? |
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khmerhit
Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 1874 Location: Reverse Culture Shock Unit
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 4:31 am Post subject: |
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Well said, Linda. |
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PanamaTeacher
Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 278 Location: Panama
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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Well it is possible that prostitution is a topic that is on the minds of many; should we restrict this forum to a discussion of things no one is interested in? Any opinions on the CIA's role in the WMD fiasco? |
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