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I agree with that rape itself is natural. And there are many instances in which even consenting sex is more exciting because it contains rape fantasies like cal
by erikb 11y ago
I agree with that rape itself is natural. And there are many instances in which even consenting sex is more exciting because it contains rape fantasies like calling the other one nasty names, hurting each other, bondage games etc. Stories like 50 shades of grey show that it is not just a male instinct to rape but also a female instead to be conquered. Power and sex are hard to separate.
Education and empathy is a really strong step to fight rape, I also believe that. I remember to have been reading that seeing and understanding another person's pain can result in us having the same emotional reaction as when experiencing the pain ourselves. Therefore increasing empathy might make the experience of raping someone as unpleasent to the rapist as for the victim.
I don't believe in that we are able to stop trafficking people, drugs, or anything else. When there's demand there are people who want to deliver. But it's true, when there are two impossible task at hand, which could you choose? I also don't believe that it's possible to break that sex-power relationship which results in rape.
- pluma 11y agoHuman trafficking is, essentially, modern slavery. As far as I know the two biggest sources of victims are: 1. people (frequently children, especially girls and women) being "sold" into slavery out of financial desperation or pressure from organized crime. 2. emigrants being tricked by traffickers, thinking they're buying a ticket to freedom in a better place but actually accruing "debt" they are then forced to "pay off" doing illegal sex work. Both of these are social problems in as much as they are crime problems. Crime thrives on social and economical instability. A naive plan of action would include: 1. Decriminalizing sex workers and illegal immigration to empower the victims who are too afraid to go to the police even if they could. 2. Improving the socio-economical situation in the victims' countries of origin, especially by curbing corruption and improving their human rights situations (e.g. reducing sexism) but also by improving social welfare and socialized health care. But I'm just navel-gazing, really. I have no experience with human trafficking and I'm just a middle-class white male so I can only make rough guesses at best.
- kirsebaer 11y ago> Human trafficking is, essentially, modern slavery. Almost all "human trafficking" is willing migrants paying someone to help them cross a border (into US, EU, etc).
- erikb 11y agoSure about that? I thought the term refers to people who are brought against their will or by lie to another country. Definition from google: the illegal movement of people, typically for the purposes of forced labour or commercial sexual exploitation.
- dublinben 11y agoSmuggling immigrants across a border is still "the illegal movement of people" and counted in the trumped up "human trafficking" statistics that are bandied about.
- pluma 11y agoSo what? Even if the numbers are inflated it's a real problem. Forced prostitution and force labour are valid problems in their own right, even outside human trafficking.
- pluma 11y agoThere seem to be multiple definitions. I'm specifically talking about human trafficking the way it is described in the article: people either being moved against their will or tricked/forced into a situation where they are being held against their will (e.g. by taking their papers and forcing them to "pay off" their debt as sex workers). This meaning is called "Menschenhandel" (literally "trade of humans") in German. Calling illegal migration "human trafficking" isn't particularly helpful though it's probably a valid use of the term (the analogy being drug trafficking, or the illegal transfer of people or objects across borders).