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Mother Jones on Sex Trafficking

Mother Jones has an article from their latest issue up on the web, Thailand's Brothel Busters. They claim that efforts to shut down brothels are hurting working women.

Let's compare sex trafficking and the textile business:

Seems that when a legitimate business, such as a clothing manufacturer, gives people a chance to work at a legitimate job and earn a decent wage (by that country's standards), then it must be labeled by American leftists and labor unions as a sweatshop. The Wall Street Journal had a good editorial in defense of P. Diddy's textile factory in Honduras, which lets its employees work in air-conditioned comfort, and earn enough money to attain a middle class standard of living in that country to boot. I'd think that in most countries, most workers would rather work, even for a low wage, than not work and starve to death. Isn't shutting down these factories hurting people even more than clamping down on sex trafficking?

Now let's look closer at sex trafficking: Girls (not even old enough to have undergone puberty) abducted and taken across international borders against their will, forced to have sex with complete strangers against their will, and given little or no control over where they live or what they do - literally forced slavery. Even if some are inured to the experience, and thus reluctant to leave because of not having anything else available, isn't it absolutely unjust to allow this situation to exist as long as long as it takes new victims every day?

He has said in his heart, "I shall not be moved; I shall never be in adversity." His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression; Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity. He sits in the lurking places of the villages; In the secret places he murders the innocent; His eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless. He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; He lies in wait to catch the poor; He catches the poor when he draws him into his net. So he crouches, he lies low, That the helpless may fall by his strength. He has said in his heart, "God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will never see." Psalm 10:6-11 NKJV

It is difficult for me to believe that anyone alive on earth could be defending the sex trafficking business, but apparently the people who put out Mother Jones are wicked enough to do just that.

Posted by joelfuhrmann at November 13, 2003 10:26 PM