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Let’s Stop Sex Trafficking Right Here at Home

by CJaye | October 15, 2009 at 03:26 pm

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Chicago is locking up prostituted women and girls which is the wrong response to sex trafficking. Samir Goswami and Anne K. Ream call on Chicago and other cities to target the johns and pimps who fuel the exploitation.

The recent publication of Nicholas D. Kristof’s and Sheryl WuDunn’s book, “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” brings much-needed attention to the sexual trafficking of women and girls in poor and developing countries.

Raising awareness of this damaging and deadly industry, as well as greater action on the behalf of these women and girls, is long overdue. International sex trade is financed by the pain of those who often come from difficult or desperate circumstances, women who are then thrust into unimaginably cruel conditions.

But as we think and act globally on the issue of sexual trafficking and exploitation, we must also act locally.

Chicago, one of the major homes to sexual trafficking in the United States, is a good place to start.

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Roy C

at 18:30 on October 15th, 2009

This is an opinion story.

How come only the poor schmucks, the "johns", who are so pathetic that they have been reduced to having to pay for sex, something no self-respecting man would do, and the pimps are responsible?

Prostitutes. I lived off Polk St in San Fran. I helped a woman who was a prostitute withdraw from heroin. I have known, not in the Biblical sense, quite a few. Most worked advertising themselves as dancers to set up their appointments.

They are exploited. They are not innocent, exploited creatures. Many just wanted to make more money or had drug addictions to pay for.

I would say to forget the innocence of the hooker schtick. It is old and false.

CJaye

at 03:18 on October 16th, 2009

Roy your not looking at the whole story. The story is about sex trafficking. Yes there are some that prostitute by choice. But the vase majority are forced into modern day sexually slavery. You can't just walk away. I respect your input.