FAQ 7: Are girls and women the only victims of slavery, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation?

The_Cake_Is_A_Lie · 2009-02-03T20:19:00+00:00

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NO.

Throughout history and continuing into modern times, the practice of forced labour has overwhelmingly targeted adult able-bodied men, leading to millions if not tens of millions of deaths.

Couple this with the US CDC report noting that 93% of workplace deaths are male. If male laborers are so disproportionately represented in the labor death rate in America, where there are ostensibly protections for laborers for abuse, isn't it possible that the death rates for male slaves is at least equally abysmal?

The West’s efforts have been, from the outset, hamstrung by a warped understanding of slavery. In the United States, a hard-driving coalition of feminist and evangelical activists has forced the Bush administration to focus almost exclusively on the sex trade.

In many countries, the laws relevant to human trafficking are restricted in their application solely to women.

A Texas AG report recognized sexual and labor exploitation of males and females

This is an example of why the "MEN HURT TOO" argument is necessary and effective. Originally, women were the primary focus of human trafficking enforcement. Now, they monitor for men too.

In some areas, "Those traffickers who lure migrant workers, mainly adult males, to do forced labor will not be convicted as the criminal code only covers those who traffic women and children,"

Amid despair at the trafficking of women and children, men too are being treated as less than sub-human

The primary focus on female sexual human trafficking is an example of Nymphotropsim: a collection of attitudes, thoughts, feelings, and biases found in human societies towards favoring the claims, needs, sympathies, and wants of women, even in the face of irrefutable evidence that such consideration is not warranted or just.

Iraqi boys have also been trafficked for sexual slavery.

these men were held on a boat for three years for labor, were not compensated, yet don't meet the local nation's "definition" of slaves. Previous international studies only defined women and children as possible victims.

2009-02-03T21:42:45+00:00

Additionally, as the Washington Post points out, Human trafficking convictions are rare.

Human Trafficking Evokes Outrage, Little Evidence U.S. Estimates Thousands of Victims, But Efforts to Find Them Fall Short

By Jerry Markon

Washington Post Staff Writer

Sunday, September 23, 2007; Page A01

wanna_dance · 2009-02-04T05:52:04+00:00

The author of the Foreign Policy piece you linked, E. Benjamin Skinner, was interviewed by Mother Jones here.

This isn't about downplaying the horrors of human trafficking.

It's just that one of the commenters pointed out that it's untrue to claim that feminists exclusively ignore anything other than sex slavery. Skinner seems to state that in everything he writes (I googled him to see where he gets that claim from. He never specifies.)

The following shows it's simply not true. The commenter links to a Ms Magazine article on the topic.

(I'm posting this because I'm tired of the feminist-bashing here. I'm a feminist and I support men's rights.)

I'm annoyed by the false claim that (US?) feminists ignore everything but sex slavery. Ms. Magazine steadily runs articles on slavery here and abroad; from a feature article last year,

"The majority of trafficking victims are people who may be sewing our clothes, picking our crops, washing dishes in our restaurants, cleaning our motel rooms and building our homes and office buildings. They may be enslaved as domestic servants in our neighbors’ homes."

That's at http://www.msmagazine.com/summer2007/invisibleones.asp if you want to see for yourself; the article has links to anti-slavery organizations, too.

The other interesting issue is: are you actually interested in ended human trafficking, men, women, children? Or is this simply a tactic for bashing women, again, because "men hurt too" and we're not paying enough attention to you, dammit! ?

kloo2yoo · 2010-04-22T12:49:34+00:00

PBS shows the trade of Afghan boys for sexual slavery.

"Bacha Bazi"- translation: "boy play"

adding more

here too, as well as here, where it's said, importantly:

…they don’t call it pedophilia in Muslim countries, nor do they consider anal rape of boys by older men as homosexual behavior if a man is the aggressor against the boy. Those acts are just standard operating procedure and this allows them to get around the strictures of Sharia law.

Although some links there are broken, the publication, article name, and date, are evident and can be found by interested persons.

boys in underage prostitution rings in Thailand

kloo2yoo · 2010-07-02T21:28:33+00:00

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