Prostitution
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[edit] Definition
[edit] History
[edit] Modern Status
[edit] Asia
- Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Thailand. Although prostitution has been illegal since the 1960s, the prohibitions are not enforced and prostitution is widespread. The government monitors prostitutes in order to prevent the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases. Several ministries have outreaches to prostitutes both to help them in their situation and to try to help them out of the sex trade.
- Southeast Asia
[edit] Child Prostitution & Sexual Slavery
- 2007. Recent International Labour Organization research suggests a speculative figure of 12,000 children per year being trafficked for sexual exploitation in South East Asia, mostly to Thailand. Thai non-governmental organisations and the Thai government estimate that 30,000 to 40,000 prostitutes are under 18. A proportion of prostitutes over the age of 18, including foreign nationals from Asia and Europe, are also in a state of forced sexual servitude and slavery. [1]
- 2007. England. Young women, mostly illegal immigrants with little legal recourse, are sold into sexual slavery via slave rings around the London airport [2].
[edit] Two lives saved for $50 in Cambodia
- One of the new believing families of fisherman went through a terrible time financially. Fish stocks are depleted on the Mekong, and one day, completely bankrupt, family members had to become “bonded” labourers to pay off their debt. In desperation, the father, sent his two teenaged daughters to the Saigon bridge area of Phnom Penh to work in a coffee shop. They were bonded into a coffee shop. If unable to pay off their debt of $50, eventually all young women such as these turn to prostitution to survive. They are never able to get out of debt.
- When I got the news that their father had sent the two teenagers to Phnom Penh, I immediately went to visit. On the surface, it didn’t look dangerous. The landlady greeted me fearlessly. But after chatting for a bit, one of the girls broke down sobbing. I could see already, that the girls, both completely illiterate and without skills at 17 and 18 would not be able to withstand the inevitable and horrible conclusion. After some tense negotiations, I paid off the debt and was able to place the two girls in a special program for VN girls at risk. It was a tramatic, exhausting, but miraculous day. Two lives saved for $50. How much cheaper does it get?
