It is in fact a myth. No one agrees to there own abuse or enslavement. The examples you give are examples of deception and deception in any form is something done against your will or consent. These are victims who may have put themselves in situation to be victimized through desperation or ignorance but victims just the same. They where prayed on abused and enslaved pure and simple.

Keep up the great work Amanda. I am your biggest fan 

M Jack 

alenow.org

This reminds me of the argument that a person can consent to rape if she or he instigates the act by wearing revealing clothing or behaving flirtatiously.  

Such arguments are soundless and blind to the value of human life and choice.  Just because an imbecile can justify a foolish idea with twisted, inhumane logic does not grant the fool the right to abuse others.

I enjoyed reading your ideas, and am incredibly impressed by your motivation and work.

Thomas

There is a lot of controversy over the numbers of adult woman who are forced sex slaves. The real factual answer is that no one knows.  There is hard evidence that the sex slavery/sex trafficking issue continues to report false information and is greatly exaggerated by politicians, the media, and aid groups, feminist and religious orgainzations that receive funds from the government,  The estimate of women who become new sex slaves ranges anywhere from 20 million a year to 5,000 per year all of which appear to be much too high.  They have no evidence to back up these numbers, and no one questions them about it.  Their sources have no sources, and are made up numbers. In fact if some of these numbers are to believed which have either not changed or have been increased each year for the past twenty years, all woman and children on earth would currently be sex slaves.  Yet, very few real sex slaves have been found. 

“If media reports on sex trafficking in Nepal are to be believed, there would be no young girls left in Nepal at this time”

A key point is that on the sidelines the prostitutes themselves are not being listened to. They oppose laws against prostitution.  But no one wants to listen to the prostitutites themsleves.  Only to the self appointed experts that make up numbers and stories.

 It is not easy for crimanals to engage in this acitvity:

Sex trafficking is illegal and the pentities are very severe.  It is very difficult to force someone to be a sex slave, they would have to have 24 hour guards posted and be watched 365 days a year, 24 hours per day. Have the threat of violence if they refused, and have no one notice and complain to the authorities or police. They would need to hide from the general public yet still manage to see customers from the general public. They would need to provide them with medical care, food, shelter, and have all their basic needs met.  They would need to have the sex slaves put on a fake front that they enjoyed what they were doing, act flirtatious and do their job well.  They would have to deal with the authorities looking for the missing women, and hide any money they may make, since it comes from illegal activity. They must do all of this while constantly trying to prevent the sex slaves from escaping and reporting them to the police. This is extremely difficult to do, which makes this activity rare.

What hard evidence does the police have that these women were forced slaves?  Were all the women that the police saw in fact slaves? Did the police prove without a doubt due to hard concrete evidence that the women were victims of being slaves and forced against their will?  Did they account for all the victim benefits they would receive if they lied?

I find it very hard to believe that most women in this business are forced against their will to do it. It would just be too difficult. There may be some exceptions but, I believe this is an attempt to over inflate an issue in order to get more government money to fight this cause.  As a tax payer, voter, and resident I don’t want the government to mislead me.

The following links will give your more information about this

Washington post article:

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/22/AR2007092201401.html

Human traffic website:

http://traffickingwatch.org/node/18

http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/OJP/a0826/final.pdf

Guardian newspaper:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/20/government-trafficking-enquiry-fails

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/20/trafficking-numbers-women-exaggerated

 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/22/gov_proposals/print.html

 India newspaper:

http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=3622&mod=1&pg=1&sectionId=9&valid=true#

 http://www.bayswan.org/traffick/Weitzer_Criminologist.pdf

 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2850/