White Slavery - Forced Prostitution and Sex Exploitation

What is white slavery? It is the act of kidnapping or intimidating someone (usually, women) to engage in prostitution. Although deemed 'barbaric', white slavery is rampant today and a direct relation between victims and the economies of the countries from which they come from are seen.

In a nutshell, white slavery is forced prostitution although the term was first used in 19^th century Britain to describe child prostitution.  Present day definition for white slavery, however, refers to sexual slavery in general. White slavery also pertains to abduction of white girls and forcing them into prostitution.

White slavery created a major moral panic in early 20^th century United States where Chinese immigrants were stereotyped as white slavers. Modern concept of white slavery on the other hand, picture African American pimps as modern white slavers.

In 1910, the White Slave Traffic Act was later on written to prohibit white slavery. This act is also called Mann Act after the lawmaker James Robert Mann. To this day however, cases of white slavery still persist in the modern world where the victims continue to suffer in silence in their slave-like conditions.

The technological advancements of the modern world not only benefited the commercial and industrial business but propelled present day white slavery as well. Transportation developments made it significantly easier to transport the women and girls to be sold as sex slaves.

Unlike the original context of white slavery were the victims were white women and children, victims of modern day white slavery come from all over the globe and in different colors, races, and ethnicity.

White Slavery in Present Day Society

• The recent wars of the 21^st century did not only increase the number of war fatalities but the victims of white slavery as well.
• In 2001, local hotels in Eritrea were selling 10-year-old girls to soldiers who were serving the United Nations peacekeeping mission.
• There were about 1,000 prostitutes prior to the arrival of UN troops in Cambodia in 1991. To date, there are at least 55,000 sex slaves in Cambodia 35% of which are minors. The sex trade makes a minimum of $500 million dollars in profit annually.
• An estimate of 5,000 women from the Philippines and Russia were transported as sex slaves to serve the US Military forces in South Korea.
• Women from some of the poorest European countries like Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, and Bulgaria are being transported and sold as sex slaves in Kosovo. The women are usually sold several times during transit.
• 2002 reports state that only 10% of sex slaves in Kosovo are given regular health care, 36% are denied any form of medical care, while majority are forced into unprotected sex.
• Few, if there are any, victims of women trafficking and white slavery were ever paid damages for the crime committed against them.
• Ukraine, where 60% of the people who lost their jobs are women, is now one of the latest targets of sex slavers.

One cause for the continued prevalence of white slavery and trafficking is corruption of law enforcement officials who either accept bribe from traffickers and pimps or become entitled to free service from the sex slaves themselves.

Moreover, economic globalization and privatization resulted in more women becoming victimized by poverty and more prone to white slavery.

===
We all want to think we are safe but are we? If you want to know more about the different types of crimes committed today, RecordsSiteReviews.com is offering FREE ACCESS to its Criminal Records Information section. If you have a nagging suspicion on someone, run a criminal check on him or her today !