[SteveMcMahon]

(02-03-2015 02:46 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

"Human trafficking", at least in developed western countries, is just a giant scam.

Read more here:
http://www.rooshvforum.network/thread-30118-...#pid654512

This.

"Human trafficking" is the modern-day rebrand of the "white slavery" panic.

This hysteria has been going on for over 100 years:

http://reason.com/archives/2008/03/13/th...very-panic

Quote:

In 1907 a group of evangelicals visited Chicago’s Everleigh Club brothel, where they handed out leaflets that said, “No ‘white slave’ need remain in slavery in this State of Abraham Lincoln who made the black slaves free.” According to the Illinois poet Edgar Lee Masters, an Everleigh Club regular, “the girls laughed in their faces.”

How many women are actually "trafficked" - i.e. forced to become prostitutes and transported to the West against their will? Very, very few as far as we can tell:

Quote:

The UK’s biggest ever investigation of sex trafficking failed to find a single person who had forced anybody into prostitution in spite of hundreds of raids on sex workers in a six-month campaign by government departments, specialist agencies and every police force in the country.

The failure has been disclosed by a Guardian investigation which also suggests that the scale of and nature of sex trafficking into the UK has been exaggerated by politicians and media.

Current and former ministers have claimed that thousands of women have been imported into the UK and forced to work as sex slaves, but most of these statements were either based on distortions of quoted sources or fabrications without any source at all.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/...-research/

We're really no different at heart from medieval societies, you see. We think we're more sophisticated, but we're not. Our technology has gotten better, but we're no less gullible or less prone to believing black legends.

In the Middle Ages people were convinced witches were real and caused otherwise inexplicable things like crop blights, animal sickness, and sudden infant death syndrome.

Serious, learned men - judges and doctors of the Church and even kings - devised scientific means of finding witches and putting an end to their witchy terror.



We've never stopped hunting witches. We just changed their name over the years - satanic cults, fraternity rapists, human traffickers...

And sometimes these things exist in the real world. There really were people in the Middle Ages who believed they were witches and had a pact with Satan.

But they're far rarer than we want to believe. We like to imagine that pure Good and pure Evil exist in the world, but they rarely do. Life is frustratingly more complicated than that.



So, "human trafficking". No, it is not a widespread problem. The vast majority of hookers do it because they want to make money.

When you think about it from a business perspective, there's no need to force women into prostitution and transport them to other countries against their will - where you will constantly have to worry about them running off and calling the police - when there are so many women who will sell their bodies willingly.

But this version of witch hunting is a feminist moral panic, so it's remarkably resistant to facts and logic.