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Sex rounded out the day's news: ABC chose cute; CBS chose gruesome--and irresponsible. Granted, CBS' Tracy Smith focused on a serious topic, the global sex slave trade: "The United States government says human trafficking is one of the largest criminal industries in the world, second only to drugs and now the fastest growing." Smith cited statistics that 20,000 foreigners are trafficked into this country each year, showing undercover video of a Chinatown brothel in New York City as illustration. So why was Smith's story irresponsible? Because the face she put on the story was a case of bait and switch. Shauna Shawna Newell, a 17-year-old from Pensacola Fla, was "drugged, raped and beaten"--horrible enough to be sure--but she was not enslaved, nor sold into a prostitution ring, nor pimped in the central Florida hotel and convention center sex industry, nor held for more than four days. Smith quoted a Justice Department claim that "increasingly American boys and girls like Shauna Shawna are attractive targets." But an attractive target does not amount to a sex slave.
ABC had London-based Nick Watt (subscription required) narrate sexy footage from the low birthrate Russian province of Ulyanovsk. Conception Day is a public holiday there, with workers ordered to stay home and procreate because nine months from now is the Russia Day holiday, when mothers of newborns qualify for prizes such as cars and refrigerators. Whatever happened to a special moment? To spontaneous affection?" Watt wondered. "When there are appliances or an SUV at stake, you can throw away the rule book."
In other articles/reports it was said that the victim was held against her will for several days, and repeatedly raped and drugged. This does, actually, classify the victim as being "enslaved," and falls into the category of human trafficking/sex trafficking. A sex slave is someone FORCED into sexual acts. This girl was lucky to have been released before she could be sold somewhere out of the area (even sold to people in another state), murdered, or kept as a sex slave for this pimp.
A high percentage of prostitutes are being held against their will, either through threats of violence or drug addiction. This makes them sex slaves. When a person is sold, forced to perform sexual acts against their will, or kept as forced domestic labor this is human trafficking.
I know your report "Whores and Madonnas" is from a while ago, but I was disturbed when I read it. This poor girl was a victim of human trafficking, despite what you think. And I found it offensive that you basically brushed this victim's experience off as "eh, she wasn't a real sex slave."
Being drugged, raped by at least five men, and being held against her will in a pimp's house sounds like sexual enslavement to me.
Nicki --
I reread the tone of my post and I have to admit that my annoyance at the sloppiness of Tracy Smith's reporting may have made me sound callous towards Ms Newell. What you read as "Eh, she wasn't a real sex slave" I meant as "if each and every example of brutal rape is counted under the sex slave category then how can we trust statistics about its traditional, more limited, definition of enforced prostitution?"
I apologize for my tone but I disagree with your argument
You yourself say that Newell was "lucky to have been released before she could be sold somewhere out of the area (even sold to people in another state), murdered, or kept as a sex slave for this pimp." So you criticize me for saying that her experience does not amount to sex slavery before conceding yourself that she was "lucky" she was not "...kept as a sex slave..."
"Slavery" means involuntary servitude as the property of another human being. "Sex slavery" means that the servitude consists of prostitution. Newell's story is one of kidnapping and gang rape -- not of sexual enslavement.
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