Finally, someone gets put away.

They convicted a man and woman for sex trafficking in Scotland.  They only moved 14 men and women for trafficking, ONLY.  How sad is it that I'm saying only.  Anyway, the more information that gets out about sex trafficking, the more people begin to understand that it is a problem with exponential growth.  It's all over the world; in every nation there is some form of it.  Third world countries are blamed for spawning it, but the first world countries are demanding it.  Yep, it's pretty screwed up.  But my blog is to inform you, the reader, of these things that really piss me off.  I'm trying to not have a bitter hatred of the two people listed in the below link.  Read and know.  If it touches you, share.  We need to expose this terrible practice every chance we get.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18783948

Russia calls us on our crap.

I love that the US likes to pretend that it's the omnipresent police force of the universe.  A report was compiled about human trafficking, and of course Russia and former Soviet Union nations got a bad grade.  It's true, when you think about trafficking humans, you automatically think of some dirty mafia thug kidnapping little girls from the school yard.  Do I picture him being Russian or Slavic? Maybe.  That or some Asian drug-king recruiting young women to be "entertainers and bartenders."

But Russia says that's not fair.  You know, they're right.  The US is a main importer of these women.  US men go on sex tours in Japan and Singapore, and other eastern countries--number one customers.  Russians and Asians may kidnap the girls, but heck, we Americans pay for them to do it.  We are the demanders looking for the supply which happens to be poor souls looking for money, whether it be male recruiters/managers/kidnappers or innocent/desperate women trying for a better life.  Yeah, we pay for them.  In reality, the heart of the problem is poverty on one end, and intense sexual perversion and greed on the other.  We're the greedy, sex hungry ones...obviously.  If there wasn't a demand, wouldn't the trade dwindle?  But it's not.  It's thriving.

In fact, it's surpassing the drug trade.  Drugs are a commodity that once used, the supply must be replenished, regrown, etc.  But a woman/child is a commodity that can be used over and over again.  It is estimated that one woman alone earns $250,000 a year.  Around 14,500 to 17,500 foreign nationals are smuggled into our nation every year.  That's over $3.5 billion to $4.3 billion a year.  And just so you know, the numbers of women and children trafficked are probably vastly underestimated.  This is international organized crime.  And we, ladies and gentleman, are the main customers.

Trafficking in the Show Biz

I'm watching CSI:  Special Victims Unit.  This episode is about a Ukrainian girl being trafficked in New York.  Yes, this type of thing happens.  Girls from Eastern Europe are transported to U.S. to be drugged in brothels.  It's true, but this is not the only face of trafficking. 

Trafficking takes place all over the world, and a majority of the time poverty is a contributing factor that forces or coerse women into trafficking.  In Thailand, poor women from Laos come to the brothels looking for work, some of them knowing what is entailed.  Some just think the women think that they're becoming waitresses or bartenders, but most of the time these women are expected to go home with customers if they are requested.

Across the world, in the United States teens or young children are trafficked on the streets.  Homeless children are very much at risk for being trafficked, whether by pimps or even there own parents.  According to Kimberly Kotrla at least 100,000 children are being trafficked various ways from pornography, prostitution, stripping or other sexual services.  She also pointed to the fact that 70 percent of prostitutes join the sex industry before they are 18.  In fact one prostitute atested to this in Kotrla's article.:

"We’re all under 18.  We’re all the same age.  There would be a few girls I knew who were in their 20s or whatever, but they were doing it since our age anyways.  I did wait till 12, and these girls had been doing it since they were eight or nine and now they are like 23."

These kinds of acts take place everywhere, and trafficking isn't only what they portray in the movies and on TV.  It has many facets.