The Slaves Next Door Analysis

While conducting library research to identify the correlation between women and rape I came across many interesting findings, analyzed different perspectives and eventually linked the sociological perspective that society has formed around women and the issue of rape. Indeed, I found that in recent decades; thousands of women have been trafficked into prostitution and other forms of sex slavery in the United States (Bales & Soodalter, 2009). They all have different characteristics at the beginning but are like each other in the end. But in all cases dreams are shattered as they are dragged into their own hell as their bodies are subjugated to beatings and rape. We can recognize that prostitution can be defined as “an activity whereby a person …show more content…
The Slaves Next Door is a controversial story which makes the reader see prostitution from a different angle. Bales and Soodalter (2009) claim that a trafficker sold a teenager with the name of Maria to a Mexican organized crime group. “They took her further north and installed her in an apartment with tree other girls providing from different countries, to be sold for sex all day, every day” (Bales & Soodalter, 2009, p. 75). The book also describes how the victims were forced to walk in the streets under a trafficker’s watch. This demonstrates that prostitution lies under a dark shadow that prevents people from seeing through it. Human trafficking will only get worse as only the finest women must feed to prostitution. On a scale of distributions across categories of human trafficking inflows, United States was ranked as number 1 on a 1-5 scale and 1 being the highest. "Evidence seems to show that legalized, sex industries actually resulting increase trafficking to meet the demand for women to be used in legal sex industries "(Della Giusta & Di Tommaso, 2009). No one knows for sure if many of the prostitutes in countries that have legalized prostitution are originally working because of their own will or if they are victims of human trafficking in women. Even the thought of prostitution being legal to bring shivers as it is becoming an acceptable practice. This is because society as this idea that women hold a sociological theory about how prostitutes can only be women. According to society, gendered roles have already been assigned. In this case, society has already identified an appropriate behavior for a specific gender regarding