A Little on What is Going on All Over the World
Here is a great link to check out!
As I was searching around on the internet I came across this site called Feminism and Women's Studies. I went through a few different pages to see what it was all about and I came across an article called Red Light, Green Light: The Global Trafficking of Women. As I read it explained the different categories of trafficking such as prostitution and mail-order brides. As I read on it talked about putting yourself into the shoes of a Burma girl and how they are kidnapped, brought to another place and raped until they thought you had enough. To read these I must say makes me sick to even imagine. These girls are as young as 10 are used for sex and are promoted in flyers and brochures as part of a tourist attraction. One of the pamphlets in Thailand talk about how you can come meet exotic young creatures and are as easy as buying a pack of cigarettes. To realize that these actual words are put out to be promoted to attract people to visit just seems absurd to me. Is there not anything else that could attract people to visit? I mean come on! Yes I'm sure this is can be enjoyable for the men but how can you even look at yourself after actually raping a 16-24 year old girl. There are other excerpts in this article that give you more examples from other brochures from other places to come visit these women, just plain crazy to me. If you read further down it talks about how one the fathers of a 12 year old girl takes her to these places because they are poor and she is young enough to forget. How in your right mind would you be able to ever forget something like that? You are her father you should be putting a stop to all of this.
It has a lot more to read about so if you are looking for a site to find out more on feminism and women’s studies be sure to check this out!
Very interesting site. Sex trafficking is a serious issue globally right now (we'll discuss it in the violence unit although it relates to some readings from this week too). Many scholars find the "sex tourism" and other forms of violence against women (when the workers are unwilling; there are different debates about sex workers who do freely choose their positions) are, in part, about the exercise of power/dominance/etc.
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