PBS's Frontline program, "Sex Slaves"

While watching the horrific Frontline documentary on the sex slave trade last night, I was overwhelmed with sadness for the situation of women in the former Soviet Bloc countries. The estimate is that 500,000 girls a year are being trafficked into the sex slave trade. Mostly to Western European countries, the supposedly "enlightened" countries. There was one woman who forced into prostitution in Turkey. Back home in the Ukraine, her family lived on the outskirts of Chernobyl and suffered genetic damage as a result. She had a sister with a brain tumor that was so advanced that it was pushing out her eye and a brother that was dying of an abdominal disorder and needed surgery to save his life. She also had a daughter of her own to support. When the Ukrainian woman went to Turkey to take a job she was forced into prostitution, of course, I realize that many of these women know that this will happen, but they are truly desperate. The woman was pregnant when she left the Ukraine The woman was forced to have an abortion by her pimp. A sympathetic client helped her escape but because her brother needed his operation the woman eventually returned to Turkey to sell herself again, as it was the only way to earn the money to save her brother. Unfortunately she was picked up in a raid and sent home. Her brother died.

There was a Moldavan man in the documentary that was trying to get his wife back. A friend of theirs had lied and said that he would take her to Turkey and get cheap goods to sell in the woman's mother's store. When he got to Turkey he sold his friend's wife. Then he heard she had been resold to a particularly brutal pimp and felt guilty, so he called his friend and told him that he sold his wife. The wife was also pregnant at the time of her capture. These woman are sent to brothels all over the world, including the US. Women are suffering tortures of the damned, all over the world, every minute of the day and few people seem to care. It's because men are by nature programmed to think of women as a recepticle. Men must be controlled by societies. They must be taught to value women as human beings. Because we are pack animals we can do this, but it is a continual struggle against men's drives. Obviously European men present a facade of egalitarian values, but there is something dark and evil underneath the mask.

I am tired of the feminists in this country complaining about their pathetic and petty discomforts, abortion rights. and glass ceilings and sexual harassment and date rape on campus. What about forced abortions, where are the, Stop Forced Abortion campaigns? American feminists do not have any real understanding of how difficult it is for most women to survive in this world. As a Philipino Priest once said, "Female flesh is a commodity that never goes out of style." No matter how much the western feminists try to desexualize men, the fact remains the same. Women and especially young girls, are prey and must be protected. Prostitution will always be with us, but I would prefer an American "Mustang Ranch" style, voluntary force of professional escorts and prostitutes, to the involuntary "slave class" we have serving men now.