- ISBN13: 9780231139618
- Condition: New
- Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
Product Description
Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world’s most profitable illicit enterprises and generate huge profits for their exploiters, for unlike narcotics, which must be grown, harvested, refined, and packaged, sex slaves require no such “processing,” a… More >>
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }
This systems analysis of the sex trade is as much expose, as it is an urgent call for action, or rather for a coordinated full-court press directed at the profits of an immensely profitable interconnected international business. The sex trade just happens to be one of the greatest multinational “continuing criminal enterprises” operating openly as modern day slavery, and thus is one of the most insidious “crimes against humanity” known to our modern times.
The author sets out to paint an accurate picture of the origins of the sex trade, and succeeds by interviewing scores of victims in eight different countries, including the U.S.; demonstrating how it operates worldwide by defining and then diagramming the essential components of the trade; and then in the last chapter, he suggests how best to eradicate the trade: through a coordinated well-funded attack on the profits of brothel owners at all levels.
The anatomy of a typical sex trade is carefully laid out by the author and begins with acquisition; that is to say with the kidnapping of a young woman. This invariably occurs through some form of deceit such as a sale by a family, abduction, seduction through romance, or recruitment by former slaves. Next, the victim is moved to an area where she can be exploited: usually to a country where laws against the sex trade and against slavery are lax, go unenforced or are non-existent. Finally the victim is exploited by being forced to engage in sex with from 20-40 men per day to pay off the debt of her capture and daily maintenance.
Altogether, it is a vicious and insidious hell, in which a woman is typically “used up” in less than five years, and then discarded. Because of the shame, many of those interviewed admitted that they were rejected by their own families and told not to return home. Invariably these “lost souls” end up destitute and with serious health problems, including HIV/AIDS.
The book is a bit technical, but is still quite an eye opener.
Three Stars
Rating: 3 / 5
Author did a great job researching this book. Kept me very interested in this serious subject.
Rating: 5 / 5
It takes commitment to read a couple hundred pages of up close, totally documented, painful and painfully accurate accounts of the illicit but widely acknowledged trade in young women. If you’re the father of daughters, as I am, this is a book that should be read not just as an account of what, at worst, might occur in remote segments of the larger world but as metaphor for what is much more likely to occur within our comfort zone.
Rating: 5 / 5
Siddharth Kara has laid bare a sordid reality of our world: sex slavery. Not only has he done so with statistics and even economic analyses ranging from the international slave trade to the massage parlors of L.A., he has researched personally and at great risk. His accounts of doleful lives and his limning of the faces of actual slaves caught in this horrific web make this an urgently intense book.
I am filled with admiration for the courage and persistence it took to create this essential text. What could have been a dry overview of distant distresses has, with Mr. Kara’s recounting of his own delvings, been made something so immediate that the reader has a sense of the grit and smells, human tragedies, and human perversion involved. An examination of not only sex trafficking but of the extent and details of modern day slavery in general, Kara’s focus moves from Italy to Moldova to Albania, to Thailand, the U.S., and Nigeria.
Offered in this book are some possibilities, some possible tactics and overall strategies for alleviation of this disgrace to humanity, with a good grasp of the realities of the problems and their ramifications. Buy and read this book!
Reviewed by David Sutton
Rating: 5 / 5
Author Siddharth Kara’s analytical approach to the underlying economic and political issues driving the business of modern slavery is unprecedented. He not only reveals the incredibly dark and immoral side of this industry through very personal interviews with victims, but also comprehensively outlines a strategy for eradicating modern slavery. His approach skillfully addresses the global economic trends in addition to local country by country dynamics that have led to the growth of human sex trafficking.
I have yet to read or encounter any work that compares to Mr. Kara’s depiction of this serious issue. The book not only strikes an emotional chord, but also provides a succinct quantifiable analysis of why this exploitation occurs in our world today and what must be done to eliminate it. “Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery” is unquestionably a groundbreaking approach to this subject and I highly encourage others to read this book. We all must develop individual efforts to bring about change and Mr. Kara’s work is certainly a call to action that cannot be ignored.
Rating: 5 / 5