“The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done ? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot. And I said after she has done all these things, "Return to Me" But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. Then I saw that for all the causes backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also. And it came to pass through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with land and trees. And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretence, saith the Lord.” Jeremiah 3:6-11 (NKJV).
While the sexual revolution of the 80s through the mid 90s may be on the decline in America, the International Sex Trade is currently on a boom in many other countries. Sexual slavery and sexual tourism is a marketable trade for many drug gangs, sex industry employers, sex smugglers, governments, selected bars, and other profiteers who randomly use, capture, smuggle, kidnap, or seduce women and children into prostitution for revenue. Western countries are not immune, and even highly regarded United Nations officials, and other persons of highly regarded employment levels, or income affiliations have not escaped the accusations of either operating, or interacting within an illegal sexual climate which harbors underage, or for the most part controversial clients or employers.
In some countries prostitution is legal, but when it comes to the issue of underage youth, or people being held against their will to engage in illicit sexual discourse, the road towards liberation is eager to be walked. Discrimination practices due to racial, gender, or other inherent differences that steer people into selling their bodies for payment, because they lose hope in the industrial sector of society is also an issue.
Human Rights abuse issues often become the focus of international attention, and while some governments look the other way, others dare to speak out when unethical practices seemingly become ubiquitous beyond their borders.
The list of countries which has an annual influx of vacationers seeking sexual pleasure has grown significantly, and includes no less than Germany, Thailand, the Philippines, Brazil, The Dominican Republic, parts of Canada, Ghana, the Gambia, Kenya, Cambodia, India, Russia, the Czech Republic, Jamaica, and to a lesser extent Costa Rica, and many others.
Though traditionally a male dominated trade, the amount of women from wealthier Western nations taking furtive trips, and seeking sexual gratification overseas has grown significantly through out recent years. Known as “Female Sex Tourism” many of these women take overseas trips with one thing on their mind, which is, the desire to be catered to by young men who lack job opportunities in their native lands. For an extra fee of carrying their bags the right way to hotel rooms, these young men of Third World countries often earn extra bucks for their services once they get inside the hotel room, and satiate the women with sexual fulfillment.
Since 1980 it is estimated that over half a million women worldwide have flown to various destinations seeking sexual pleasure, and some 80,000 women from the United States fly annually to Caribbean destinations to do the same. For the part of Europe, many Nordic women fly to West African destinations, and usually wind up in Ghana, or the Gambia to mingle sexually with the local men back at the hotels.
The World Trade Organization, which is an arm of the United Nations has connected many travel agencies to the sex tourist industry, because often times they have been found to be steering people towards sexual contact with overseas potential suitors. The sex trade is not a new issue for the world. However, due to a highly mobile western style press operating on behalf of media outlets, and a voracious appetite by reporters seeking to capture new stories, the issue is in the spotlight.
In some countries, there have been Unions formed to back workers of the sex industry. In England there is The International Union of Sex Workers, and in Canada there is the Canadian Guild For Erotic Workers. In India sex workers have come together to protest legislation to band them from assembling in bars.
Legislation enacted by India's Politicians was originally meant to help stem the rising tide of HIV among the country's citizens, but many Sex Workers only have a basic education, and they began to complain it would cut short their ability to earn an income. Daily survival with their families must take precedent. India's National Network of Sex Workers state these measures would only provide the police the easiest excuses to raid their brothels, and now being about 200,000 strong they have taken to the streets to protest these laws.
The group has requested that prostitution not be made illegal. Even in the United States which has nearly the strongest anti-prostitution measures in the world there is concern about such laws changing. On September 5, 2000, the United Nations had architectured laws that strictly forbid discrimination against women by member states. It has been signed by 165 countries (Last I researched), and the American Senate has been careful not to ratify this treaty, since it would repeal prostitution laws in America. Known as “The United Nations Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women,” this law states that women have a right to control their own bodies. I would like to mention, the U.S. Constitution forbids any foreign power's legislation from superseding American state and federal laws; albeit, this has already occurred by U.S. Peace keeping troop forces.
Most of these Third world nations do not want to pass laws curbing the sex industry in their territories, because it brings in increased revenue, but they do so under heavy Western pressure (Usually American). The West for it's part justifies this pressure, due to pedophilia travelers going to their Third World shores.
There is also the problem of passport confiscation practiced by foreign gangs, families, businesses, or other entities of society that lure women to their shores with promises of jobs. Many of these women are steered into being compelled to engage in a sexual rendezvous with complete strangers, while their hosts retain the fees. If they speak out they can be beaten into submission by the person, or persons whom lured them there in the first place. This has occurred all over the world. Philippine women have been brought to Japan with promises of a better life, and have become trapped in brothels.
African women with little opportunities back home have been lured to the Arabian Peninsula to become sex slaves. Women from the Dominican Republic have found themselves trapped in Argentina. The list goes on and on, and United States Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, has spoken out against the issue of worldwide sexual slavery. After providing $82,000,000 dollars in anti-sexual slavery assistance to overseas governments, on June 3, 2005, Condoleeza Rice declared in an open letter to the American people, “Yet for millions of people entrapped each year in vicious schemes of labor and sex trafficking, freedom is denied.
These trafficking victims are deprived of their basic human rights and fall into modern day slavery. President Bush, the Congress, and the American people are united in efforts to eradicate trafficking in persons internationally and within national borders because this global crime opposes the universal value of freedom.”
Secretary of State Rice has also taken a stance against missing children being taken by these new found diabolically inspired, and psychologically denigrated twisted and most brutal masters. Peace keeping forces have been sent to African and Asian nations, and the number of prostitutes in a given area rises. Many are children trying to support a family, or get their next meal, or purchase milk, but find themselves in the arms of a professional soldier for about $1.00 (USD) a session in a certain African nation. Rebels on the other hand forcibly take what they want.
While much of this is truly sad, often times history is only repeating itself.
In March 2007, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, while referring to his nation's involvement in World War Two he made controversial remarks regarding Japanese soldier occupations of other Asian lands. He denied that Japan used “Comfort Women” to service soldiers. But, history spoke on account of the truth, and many demonstrations took place forcing the Prime Minister to re-phrase his earlier statements. The truth was that force, coercion, and other means were used to disassemble the Prime Minister's earlier views.
There were files stored in Japan's own government ministries on the treatment of conquered women. Japanese history books denying such events also drew protest in many Asian societies whose governing regimes rarely permitted such protest. While not connected to today's sex trade industry, this historical event demonstrates the fact that without proper government channels to regulate ethical treatment of those under it's authority, force can be displayed on a massive scale to compel sexual pleasures.
But what occurred in Japan is by no means unique, and today many are questioning how far America went to hide much of the Japanese War atrocities.
The Black tribes living in Darfur, Sudan have also suffered their hell of sex slavery by having their female members abducted, and turned into sex slaves by brutal Arab warmongers who attack them in the southern region of the country. The weak government in the Congo can also do little to help victims trapped in the vicious cycle of sexual misconduct within it's borders. Due to a long fought civil war local judicial systems have often times been broken down at the expense of prosecuting guerilla fighters.
United Nations Peace Keeping forces have also been rebuked about their involvement with local young girls in both the Congo and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In what may seem to be the normal way of life back home has often led to controversy as immigrants make their way to Western shores.
A multi-millionaire dollar Indian couple who made a fortune selling perfume had their property raided by police in Long Island, New York, to free two Indonesian women reportedly being held against their will.
As reported on America's network News broadcasting station ABC via “Night Line”, in southern California a young Arab girl was taken from an Egyptian family after serving as a “domestic servant”. This is a role she began in her native Egypt as a child, and was forced to continue in America. Today, she met a young Arab bachelor, and is a happily married woman. While this is a happy ending to this story it does not always turn out this way, and thousands of people around the world still find themselves trapped today.
Men are also held against their will at times. On June 6, 1993 the infamous voyage of The Golden Venture journey came to an abrupt end. Almost 300 Chinese immigrants paid $30,000 to set sail from Thailand before reaching their destination in the USA. The crew whom were mostly men were reportedly treated very cruel, and the woman (“Cheng Chui Ping” known as “Snakehead” or “Big sister Ping”) who helped arrange the voyage was later convicted of money laundering, and smuggling of illegal immigrants, and was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Most of those men were detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Today, The Department of Homeland Security), and then sent back home to China where they faced harsh penalties, but others appealed to the Bush administration for amnesty with ongoing adjudication procedures still in motion. But this demonstrates the reality of the world in which we live, and the plight many people face from day to day.
The preamble of this report began with Biblical quotations. When God informed ancient Israel of it's adulterous harlotry He was mainly referring to their politico-social alliances. He saw the course the nation was taking, and knew it was leading to a culture of moral breakdown. God sought to sew moral values in the fabric of the country's society, and He was comparing the nation to an adulterous woman, because they placed their political and social allegiance in unison with the surrounding pagan nations, as opposed to giving Him first place in their lives. This indeed would lead to an outbreak of sexual promiscuity as one of the consequences of removing Him out of their lives.
There is a saying among Christians, “You can be in the Church, but the Church may not be in you.” The Lord sought to create an analogy, so that the people could see how much they had fallen. Hopefully, education, legitimate job growth, and strict penalties against child endangerment will be taken seriously by local governments in an effort to fight a sustained battle against those who endanger, enslave, and exploit children, and entrap women against their wills for the purpose of sexual exploitation and monetary profit. To those who know of someone who needs help my prayer is you are not afraid to go forward to local authorities for the benefit of their freedom, if that method is available. Jesus came to set us free, and may you be free indeed.
