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21 April 2009

Trade

I think I mentioned this movie back when we were first exploring our paper topics, so I'm sorry I waited so long to talk about it again.
This movie gives a really frightening journey of being kidnapped and forced into being a sex slave, and how family members are affected. I don't want to give anything away, but this movie is great and definitely worth watching. It begins with two girls who travel to Brazil and once they arrive are kidnapped by the "travel agency" and taken into the sex trade. It follows the story of these two girls but then there is another storyline going on, which I won't reveal!
Here is the trailer for the movie, if you are interested I own the movie so anyone can borrow it but I will need it back. Just a disclaimer: it is a very intense/sad/shocking movie.


On another note, I wonder if there is a market for sex trafficking of men? It seems that when we hear about sex trafficking it is always about women.
I also wonder how the numbers compare between men and women being sex trafficked or if data is even available for men in the sex trade?
Finally, as far as running these trades I wonder the percentage of women being in charge VS. men being in charge? I think it would be surprising to see how often women run these sex trades and just use men as the muscle to control the girls.
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  1. RebeccaTuesday, April 21, 2009 10:35:00 PM

    We've talked about this in my Globalization and Social Change class and men are trafficked, but in the broader sense of human trafficking. They are usually not taken for sexual purposes but rather for labor (keep in mind that women are often trafficked just for labor purposes as well). I imagine that perhaps some men are used for sexual purposes as well. I did just find an article (http://www.ungift.org/docs/ungift/pdf/knowledge/research_on_trafficking.pdf) that talks about men being trafficked for labor.
    Women are often more vulnerable to being trafficked because of their lower status (I know, duh). But think about it; it's usually the poor men who are selling their child/girlfriend/wife/etc. in order to make a profit.
    A lot of women are also tricked into being trafficked. Many times they are told that they will be able to go to a different country to work where they will have more job opportunities and then their papers are taken away during the trip. If I remember correctly, there are a surprisingly large number of women involved in the trades because they are able to lure in the women (perhaps they seem less creepy? I don't know). They don't even need muscle, they just trap them into it.

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  2. ShedrickaThursday, April 23, 2009 8:33:00 PM

    You posed a question in class about men being sex trafficking but I could not find a definite statistic but they are trafficked but mostly for work, labor like Becca said.

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