A picture that makes you angry or sad
I found this picture with google images. Typing in “sex slavery” I sort through the pictures - searching through the one that correctly portrayed what fuels my passion for raising awareness and ending sex trafficking.
I saw a picture of an Indian woman that worked in a brothel and her baby was laying on the same bed she works off of. Some pictures were mugshots of men who were traffickers. Another picture, I almost chose over the one above, was of women standing on a corner. Some of the women had smiles on their faces because they have to sell their product, themselves. If these women don’t sell their product to a certain number of clients that night, they will be punished - either abuse or their “debt” may increase.
Right now, I am reading book, Sex Traffic by Paola Monzini, and it is a nonfiction piece on the elements of sex trafficking - the customers, the traffickers, and the slaves (women, children, and, surprisingly to me, men). One thing I learned that makes me really uneasy and, to me, it makes the issue of sex slavery an even higher and windier mountain to climb, is many sex slaves are used in pornography. Let me break that down, not only is sex slavery funded by the man that will pick the women up on the corner, or the “sex tourists” that travel to receive their purchase in a different country (what you saw in Trafficked or Trade), sex slavery is also on the computers that males AND females access very often (sometimes daily).
I chose this particular picture because it portrays what these women, children, and men are treated like. Like pieces of meat, they are butchered, sometimes branded, and packaged for whoever will pay the price - and not even a high price at that!
“Fresh meat”, no wonder I’m vegetarian. (sorry if that was an inappropriate pun)
A picture that makes you angry or sad
I found this picture with google images. Typing in “sex slavery” I sort through the pictures - searching through the one that correctly portrayed what fuels my passion for raising awareness and ending sex trafficking.
I saw a picture of an Indian woman that worked in a brothel and her baby was laying on the same bed she works off of. Some pictures were mugshots of men who were traffickers. Another picture, I almost chose over the one above, was of women standing on a corner. Some of the women had smiles on their faces because they have to sell their product, themselves. If these women don’t sell their product to a certain number of clients that night, they will be punished - either abuse or their “debt” may increase.
Right now, I am reading book, Sex Traffic by Paola Monzini, and it is a nonfiction piece on the elements of sex trafficking - the customers, the traffickers, and the slaves (women, children, and, surprisingly to me, men). One thing I learned that makes me really uneasy and, to me, it makes the issue of sex slavery an even higher and windier mountain to climb, is many sex slaves are used in pornography. Let me break that down, not only is sex slavery funded by the man that will pick the women up on the corner, or the “sex tourists” that travel to receive their purchase in a different country (what you saw in Trafficked or Trade), sex slavery is also on the computers that males AND females access very often (sometimes daily).
I chose this particular picture because it portrays what these women, children, and men are treated like. Like pieces of meat, they are butchered, sometimes branded, and packaged for whoever will pay the price - and not even a high price at that!
“Fresh meat”, no wonder I’m vegetarian. (sorry if that was an inappropriate pun)
Posted 1 year ago
