Comments on: Trafficking as White Slavery, Chicago, 100 years ago

By: working the badger game « gimcrack hospital (PG)

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By: Laura Agustin

Laura Agustin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:58:30 +0000

Bavardess, yes but as I pointed out in the article, that case is the one always cited, with the result that people don’t know how widespread the phenomenon was.

Maxine, I know, I saw that Times thing about children. There is so much to comment that one would hardly have time to do anything else.

By: Bavardess

Bavardess — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:07:03 +0000

In her book The City of Dreadful Delight, historian Judith Walkowitz provides an excellent analysis of the white slavery panic triggered by W.T. Stead’s famous ‘expose’ of child prostitution, “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon”, which ran in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1885. Walkowitz looks at all the competing discourses in the debate, and how the particular social, cultural and political context in which Stead wrote provided just the right fuel for his flame. It is very interesting to read her analysis and pick up many of the same themes at work in the present.

By: Donna Hughes Advocates the Abuse of Sex Workers

Donna Hughes Advocates the Abuse of Sex Workers — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:38:23 +0000

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By: maxine doogan

maxine doogan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:52:42 +0000

The idea that clothes belong to employers is nothing new and the state of debt for the American workers is nothing new either it still doesn’t warrant us being arrested and put out of work.
And Laura, you can do this same highlighting of the recent NYtimes article which has got to be the worst piece of reporting in that its makes statements that are completely undocumented.

It promotes the idea of the police arrest teens for ‘minor offenses as truancy or picks them up as high-risk victims’, teen runaways to ghettoize them into ‘shelters’ where they’re ‘speaking to them when their guard is down. Only later, as trust builds, do officers and social workers move into discussions of prostitution…Repeat runaways are not put in juvenile detention but in a special city shelter for up to a month, receiving counseling….’
This sounds like Quantonamo Bay. Arresting them, holding them by violating the young people’s limited civil rights, subjecting them to brain washing also known as counseling. It totally makes the young person responsible for everything. This story glorifies the systematic institutions of violence that arrest, interrogate, FBI water boarding style, and detain illegally as a means of ‘salvation’. Disgusting

By: maxine doogan

maxine doogan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:17:49 +0000

The problem is that the whole prostitution industry is criminalized. Everybody, from the security, phone girls, house cleaners, drivers and of course, the direct service providers…everybody. So a hundred years ago business owners spoke out, now, us workers speak out and we’re ignored, marginalized and targeted for the violence of arrest in the next child rescue sweep.
The solution is to stop arresting us.

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By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:50:22 +0000

In modern times I would say that the owners of the Everleigh club should get a fair trade logo on their windows, so the clients (“I”) would know that the women are free. Unfortunately nearly all brothel owners say that there is no forced prostitution in their brothels. All is fine and they don’t do business with human traffickers.

From I what I know forced prostitution is still not a myth, today and in the past. I read some books about Dutch prostitution in the past and a common occurence was that the female brothel owners (madams) also owned the clothes of the prostitutes so it was basically impossible for the women the leave the brothel, except when nude. The prostitutes often had debts. The madams also sold the women to other madams. An interesting book (unfortunately only in Dutch) is “Het Amsterdams hoerdom” by Lotte van der Pol. What is interesting is that well into the 19th century the brothel owners or sex traffickers were predominantly female.

Very interesting stuff.

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