The lie of sex trafficking

[biglin]

Information, resources and links relating to the Myth of Sex Trafficking

== In the United Kingdom ==
In October, 2009 – The biggest ever investigation of sex trafficking failed to find a single person who had forced anybody into prostitution in spite of hundreds of raids on sex workers in a six-month campaign by government departments, specialist agencies and every police force in the country. The failure has been disclosed by a Guardian investigation which also suggests that the scale of and nature of sex trafficking into the UK has been exaggerated by politicians and media.
Nick Davis of the Guardian newspaper writes:

Current and former ministers have claimed that thousands of women have been imported into the UK and forced to work as sex slaves, but most of these statements were either based on distortions of quoted sources or fabrications without any source at all.

== World Cup 2006 ==
Politicians, religious and aid groups, still repeat the media story that 40,000 prostitutes were trafficked into Germany for the 2006 world cup – long after leaked police documents revealed there was no truth at all in the tale. A baseless claim of 25,000 trafficking victims is still being quoted, recently, for example, by the Salvation Army in written evidence to the home affairs select committee, in which they added : “Other studies done by media have suggested much higher numbers.”. Which has been proven by the German police to be completely false. Yet people still talk about these false numbers as if it were fact.

== In the USA ==
On August 5, 2008
U.S. Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine uncovered discrepancies in a program dedicated to cracking down on human trafficking, McClatchy Newspapers report. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales spent millions of dollars on combating the international trafficking of indentured servants and sex slaves, including by creating task forces across the U.S. that identified and helped victims. Over four years, the department paid $50 million to the task forces and other groups. Conservative groups, who pressured the administration to go after sex trafficking more aggressively, applauded his efforts.

Critics have questioned whether the problem was being hyped. Fine found in an audit issued that the task forces and other groups set up to help were ‘significantly’ overstating the number of victims they served. By examining a sampling of cases, Fine found the task forces had exaggerated by as much as 165 percent. Making matters worse, the inflated numbers were included in annual reports to Congress.

== Criminals engaging in sex slavery ==
Sex trafficking/sex slavery is illegal and the penalties 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 have 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.

If media reports are to bebelieved, there would be no young girls left in Nepal. Oft-quoted figures such as 5,000-7,000 Nepali girls being trafficked across the border to India every year and 150,000-200,000 Nepali women and girls being trapped in brothels in various Indian cities, were first disseminated in 1986, and have remained unaltered over the next two decades. The report that first quoted these statistics was from the Indian Health Association, Mumbai, written by AIDS Society of India secretary general, Dr. I S Gilada, and presented in a workshop in 1986. Subsequently, a version of this report was published as an article in The Times of India on January 2, 1989. To date, the source of this figure remains a mystery. Unfortunately, such a lack of clarity is more the norm than the exception when it comes to reporting on trafficking in women and girls.

The following links will give you more information about this:

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

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

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

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

BBC Newsnight (YouTube) :





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

Human traffic website:
traffickingwatch.org/node/18

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

Other sources:

www.bayswan.org/traffick/Weitzer_Criminologist.pdf

www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2850/
bristolnoborders.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/more-evidence-that-sex-trafficking-is-a-myth/

www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/michael-duffy/much-ado-about-a-small-segment-of-the-global-sex-industry/2008/06/13/1213321616701.html

mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/10/30/more-on-the-great-sex-trafficking-scam-in-the-u-k/

ww.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1227418/SPECIAL-INVESTIGATION-The-myth-Britains-foreign-sex-slaves.html

[Erasmus]

It does happen. There was a good programme about it several years ago because it was not covered by law here amd may still not be. One of the points that programme raised is that women are more involved than men in runnning that show.

So every abuse happens. The degree to which it happens is an entirely different matter and there have been plenty of investigations to show that slave-trafficking applies to many other occupations before prostitution. There are likely to be teenage slave-prostitutes but they are not trafficked as much as embroiled through their heroin addiction, and all street workers have always faced protection rackets, be they prostitutes, Edith Piaf or beggars and Big Issue sellers fighting over their pitch or with muscle-men controlling it.

Women have certainly been tricked into sexual service when they expected something else - but all the evidence is that they are no different from, and as much of a minority as, any native girls naive enough to think (or to care!) that posturing in a strip or pole dancing club won't relate to 'unofficial' paid sexual arrangements if they want to make any real money out of it.

What an irony, that if show and no more under their control is what they plan, then they are far more likely to get that in the kinky communities than among straights.

Yes it happens, but sweatshop trafficking happens far more. It naturally pays any illegal street-walker to claim that she was conned into it and was too ignorant of local law to run away. That has been true of girls, not women, and reading between the lines, those East European girls were hired to East European sadists who like to rape terrified teenage girls, not men just looking for [not so] cheap thrills with co,pliant women.

There are far more like the Chinese cocklers drowned in Morecombe Bay than there are genuine hoodwinked trafficked whores.

The brothel-rapists are part of the same paedophile and rapist rings that operate as much locally as internationally. It does happen, but whatever one thinks of buying sexual thrills, where genuine sex-trafficking has been exposed, the teenage girls have been subjected to violent aggressive rape under sordid conditions that only men looking to rape children could enjoy, and those men have mostly been of the same culture as trafficked them. So all that is at issue is paedophile-sadist-rapist sickening pervert rings whose girls happened to come from Eastern Europe for East Europeans but are no different because of that, than if they had been kidnapped next door.

If they were on release to the general public, wouldn't the ponces worry that most men do not want sex with girls fighting it off crying their eyes out, so might be put off and spill the beans to the cops? Those girls were part of the same trafficking that goes on internally for perverts.

They are a completely different entity from sex workers (even if under-age or paying a ponce) doing what they're paid for.

While the division and the real thinking behind it is get the dirty foreigners out, it makes a totally false division based on origin, between willing sex workers of any origin and kidnapped children of any origin. Instead of their situation, it cares about their origin, and while it really does damn-all to protect the genuinely hideously raped girls, it treats the women who know what they are doing as idiot victims. But that fulfills the twin English traditions of condemning foreigners and protecting females from sex, does it not?

[mouse]

Jul 21, 2011 23:09:58 GMT -5 Erasmus said:

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While the division and the real thinking behind it is get the dirty foreigners out,

. But that fulfills the twin English traditions of condemning foreigners and protecting females from sex, does it not?

why do you consider foriegners dirty i find that very sad

another anti English rant..thats two ive read this morning...never mind..

as for sex trafficking it happens..just as sex slavery happens..it always has and no doubt it always will

[biglin]

It "happens" to about the same extent that "justice" is done in Zimbabwe or Somalia.

In the meantime I'm posting a petition. It's quite disgraceful - this group faked data, told blatant lies and so on to get government funding.

Please sign the petition!

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Published by maxine on May 03, 2011
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Background (Preamble):
Recently the Village Voice exposed the Schapiro Group, a private consulting firm in Georgia, and the Women’s Funding Network of California, a women’s charity, for knowingly deceiving both congress and the public using false data manufactured through fraudulent research presented alarming reports of a sudden rise in trafficking and sexual exploitation of girls. This false data was used to justify funding which brings more harm than good.

Tell the US Department of Justice to do its job and investigate these groups for fraud and possible racketeering in so far as they have received public funding.

www.villagevoice.com/2011-03-23/news/women-s-funding-network-sex-trafficking-study-is-junk-science/
Petition:
To:
U.S. Department of Justice
Criminal Division
Fraud Section
Bond Building, 4th Floor
10th and Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Att: Denis J. McInerney
Chief, Fraud Section
202-514-7023

Recently the Village Voice exposed the Schapiro Group, a private consulting firm in Georgia, and the Women’s Funding Network of California, a women’s charity, for knowingly deceiving both congress and the public using false data manufactured through fraudulent research. These groups presented alarming reports of a sudden rise in trafficking and sexual exploitation of girls.

This false data was used to justify funding from private foundations, corporate donors, and potentially the government. No one would deny that the prevention of sexual trafficking of minors is vitally important. The safety of children is a commitment we share.

Unfortunately the false information propagated by the Schapiro Group and anti trafficking non profits does more harm than good.

Fraudulent research negatively impacts the crucial efforts of legitimate organizations that serve exploited and trafficked minors. When these organizations are not able to report that they have reached numbers of youth comparable to the inflated numbers of victims reported by the Schapiro Group, it jeopardizes their credibility and funding. Bogus data misrepresents not only the quantity of trafficked minors, but also their demographics. Boys and transgender youth are not appropriately included in the study. Additionally, we are concerned that increased funding for law enforcement efforts to combat a vastly inflated threat of the trafficking of minors is channeled instead into police actions directed not at traffickers, but rather against consenting adult sex workers, a vulnerable population that already suffers from social stigma, criminalization and unequal access to protection. We reject the concept that criminalizing members of any population is an effective way to rescue them.

Exploitation of children is an important issue that should never be lied about. To do so represents a greedy and cynical funding grab at the expense of frightening the public, deceiving donors, and misdirecting resources. To do so knowing that this effort will undoubtedly result in law enforcement targeting of adult women consensually working in the sex industry would surely not be consistently endorsed by the supporters of a large women’s fund.

Therefore, we, the undersigned, call on the United States Dept. of Justice to investigate the Schapiro Group and the Women’s Funding Network for conspiracy to commit fraud against their donors, the public and the US government. To the degree to which they received public monies, and provided false testimony before congress, we call for an investigation for fraud against federal and state governments as well.

Maxine Doogan
Erotic Service Providers Union

[Erasmus]

That's my (and your) point, Linda - it happens. Just about everything happens but the issue is whether to acknowledge that shit happens, or to use that to say that what happens is always shit.

There's no need to focus on dirty foreigners for sex slavery, adult or juvenile. There are plenty enough probably less interested in prostituting local girls than in the money they get for drugs that the girls raise in the easiest way. When genuine sex-slaves are found, they should be seen in that light, as foreigners dragged into that game, just like local addicts and runaways.

That would not fit the nice image though, that only nasty foreigners do these things. The nasty foreigners are only slipping into a domestic underworld that existed for them to slip into.

How many paedophile rings have been found created from Eastern Europe? Why, if there was no demand before? There's enough news headlines to show that underage sex is not a foreign perversion! In fact I'd think it more American than any European, just going by porn spam.

I think that as long as the focus remains on trafficked women, that is a way of pretending that we don't do such horrible things (so who are the women supposed to be trafficked for?) but instead of addressing the problem of genuine sex slavery, it makes it a nationalist and moralistic issue making an entirely false nationalistic distinction between willing and forced prostitutes according to their origin and age.

Life and people are far more complicated than that, and not all girls feel sex so shameful that they would never sell it unless forced to. There are women who enjoy sex with men and some who'd exploit it for money as much as gigolos, but of course Victorian prudery in its present garb called feminism naturally present women as feeble ignorant sexless victims of male superiors (even though it's women who've always run brothels) just as they ever did - and nasty foreigners always to blame for corrupting our women

[mouse]

i think some how you miss one point......why import women for sex when there are already plenty of home grown women for sex
its rather like importing criminals when we cannot cope with the criminals we already have
similar to importing workers when we cannot employ the people of this country
as for dirty foriegners yet again why..dirty...