Socio-politico Rants
I have pretty much said what I had to say about this already, and we all got to witness behaviour of the men who are responsible for it’s proliferation first hand on the internet, as they spent a few weeks attacking me. Which simply ended up reinforcing the idea of how distasteful the whole thing is. Suprise! Those who do this aren’t nice people! So more news to remind people how dire, disturbing and a huge problem it is, in this part of the world.
Asian sex trade increasing AIDS crisis
2004-11-24 HKT 09:02 (RTHK on Internet)
The United Nations says the booming sex trade in Asia has contributed to an HIV-AIDS crisis. More than 8 million people in the region are now living with the virus. The UN’s annual report on the epidemic says cases of the disease in asia have jumped by one million over the past two years, with a 56 percent rise in the number of infected women.
More Children Entering East Asian Sex Trade, says UN
November 11, 2004 – By Associated Press
More and more children are entering the sex trade in East Asia and the Pacific, with exploiters using the Internet and mobile phones equipped with cameras to lure minors, child rights advocates said Wednesday.
Senior officials and representatives from 23 countries ended three days of talks Wednesday in Bangkok aimed at evaluating efforts to fight child prostitution in the region.
“It is commonly agreed that, tragically, the situation in some cases is graver than it was before,” said Denise Ritchie, New Zealand representative of the watchdog group ECPAT, or End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes.
“In other words, there are more and more children than ever who have been coerced or enslaved in the sex trade,” she told a press conference.
In recent years, the trade has spread, particularly in the South Pacific, through growing tourism and fishing industries, delegates said. They also noted that technology such as the Internet and mobile phones with cameras were being used to exploit children.
Officials at the UN-hosted meeting agreed to fight the sexual exploitation of children by trying to change attitudes, behavior and cultural practices.
But stronger participation by governments and implementation of child protection laws are still needed, delegates said.
The meeting included representatives from Australia, Burma, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, Timor Leste, Vanuatu and Vietnam.
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
Yeah, those lofaan (and the non-lofaan sickos too) oughtta be lined up and shot. I got dibs on the rifle squad!
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Unfortunately did not catch your past entries on the sex trade in Asia, but it’s a very sad phenomenon. It also annoys the hell out of me cause I travel to China a lot for work, and the sex trade comes in all different forms. The “mistresses” who get “owned” by men for money are prositutes as far as I’m concerned as well… Being hassled by pimps who recognize out-of-town travelers is also very annoying, but then again it happens when I walk in Shinjuku as well (hmmm…do I give off an I want to get laid vibe?)
I guess this is the oldest profession and it will always exist, because of the demand. I think it needs to be legalized and regulated to prevent AIDS and STDs from spreading. Just like certain drugs should be legalized and regulated.
As for child sex trade…I agree that we should just round them up and set them on fire. Did anyone see that documentary on CNN about 4 months ago on this topic? We need to put down some strict punishment on this crap, internationally and now.
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I would so far far as to say that Americans who travel to Asia and patronize child prostitutes do a huge disservice, not only to the human beings they are buying overseas, but to innocent children here in the States. One could only imagine that taking a taste of forbidden fruits would only stir their sick appetites when they are at home. I’m sure that there is an indirect link between men who are frequent sex-trade enthusiasts and the rise in pedophilia in the U.S.
What can be done?
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I think I recall discussing the sex trade in asia with you before – the whole Conrad phenomena, right?
This subject riles me. A few months ago I was assisting a prosecutor in a sex slave trade case that occurred here in Detroit. The defendant was a member of a group of men who would troll poor areas in Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, and a few other large cities in the Great Lakes area, looking for young poor girls that people wouldn’t miss. In some cases the group would kidnap the girls, usually b/w 12 and 17 y/o but some as old as 20, outright. In most other cases they’d tell the girls that they have a job opportunity selling fake jewelry in malls potentially earning up to $500 week. To a poor urbanite in, say, Detroit this is a lot of money. Some would agree to go along, and once they were in the car, they would disappear.
The girls were then forced to strip for adult pervert men in makeshift “clubs”, which were old houses in seedy neighborhoods with the windows painted black so no one could see in. Steel poles were installed in the middle of dilapidated living rooms so that the young girls (children) could “pole dance” for their client. The girls were then forced into run-down bedrooms with old semen-stained, used condom-covered matresses laying on the floor and forced into sexual acts that in some cases caused physical trauma, since most of them were still-developing young women.
If the girls tried to get away, they were beaten (called “violations”). If they cried, they were violated. If they tried to use a phone, violated. Tried to take some of the cash paid for their sex services, violated.
One 13 y/o girl who tried to get away incurred the wrath of the man who lead the group. So he first beat her, then his guys took turns raping her, then heated a knife on a stovetop, and pressed it onto her face, searing her flesh. Ugh.
I think that generally people fail to feel the outrage that they should about this subject. It’s horror, and the victims are fucked-up for life. Human trafficking, as Mexican smugglers have discovered along the US-Mexico border, is more profitable than the drug trade, and carries far fewer penalties. I suspect that human traffickers in Asia have discovered the same thing.
I’m glad that you write about this stuff, Yan. It’s important that people see and consider it. And the fuckers who perpetuate it should defintitly be shot. (I want in on gino888’s rifle squad.)
(BTW, if anyone wants to know more about the case in Detroit I was talking about: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/16/national/main536800.shtml. I helped prosecute one of the “heads” of the group – sort of like middle management. We won the case – the defendant will spend a significant part of his life in prison. If there is such a thing as Cosmic justice, he’ll be passed around as a prison bitch.)
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The link above won’t work. Once again:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/16/national/main536800.shtml
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