Re Corporate Media: I’ve read mainstream newspaper articles and watched TED talks from supposed survivors of human trafficking, just to find out that they were 18+ year old American prostitutes who whored themselves for drugs. Some of them walked away from their pimps who did nothing to confine them, or they were returned to their families, and they turned around to return to whoring when the drug jonesing hits hard. Drug addiction is a serious, sad problem, and prostitution is a nuanced issue, but neither of them are the same as trafficking. It seems the corporate media are trying to muddy the waters.
Real trafficking is more like kidnapping and imprisonment, or coercing people based on their vulnerabilities such as being underage or from a foreign country. This is the real problem that the corporate media is trying to bury and replace with sad sack tales of voluntary prostitutes of legal age.
Re Corporate Media: I’ve read mainstream newspaper articles and watched TED talks from supposed survivors of human trafficking, just to find out that they were 18+ year old American prostitutes who whored themselves for drugs. Some of them walked away from their pimps who did nothing to confine them, or they were returned to their families, and they turned around to return to whoring when the drug jonesing hits hard. Drug addiction is a serious, sad problem, and prostitution is a nuanced issue, but neither of them are the same as trafficking. It seems the corporate media are trying to muddy the waters.
Real trafficking is more like kidnapping and imprisonment, or coercing people based on their vulnerabilities such as being underage or from a foreign country. This is the real problem that the corporate media is trying to bury and replace with sad sack tales of voluntary prostitutes of legal age.