Sexual slavery

through family and sexual conduct. Wyatt-Brown actually presents the causation for southern behaviors through the patriarchal machismo of southern society by examining how male genitalia defines the symbolic power of “honor” as a foundation for slavery and a white-male-dominant culture. More so, Wyatt-Brown (1986) argues that women were taught to be experts…

purpose of exploitation. This type of exploitation can include prostitution, forced labor, slavery, sexual abuse, removal of organs, or any other types of exploitation. The criminalization of this act if caught can be if you are participating as an accomplice or organizing a human trafficking organization as well. Human trafficking has always been an issue, but hasn’t always been called human trafficking. Slavery has been the term for centuries on end, following the definition above the…

What is Human Trafficking? Human trafficking is often mixed up with human smuggling, and even though that the both involve illegal movement of people there is a distinct difference in them. Human trafficking “in short, … are, first, the transportation of a person; second, force, fraud, or coercion; and, finally, exploitation.” In this definition the consent of the human being is not accounted for, but in the definition of human smuggling the consent of the human is acknowledged. Nobody knows…

Carole Pateman’s The Sexual Contract digs deep into contract theory and the issues that arise from relationships created by contract. Pateman hones her focus on the slavery, marriage, employment, prostitution contracts. The main issue at stake is that “the original contract is a social-sexual pact.” (1) The simultaneous inclusion and exclusion of women from civil society lays in the suppression of the sexual contract. Political right becomes “patriarchal or [male] sex-right.” (1) Through…

Against Sex Trafficking Slavery is the condition of harsh labor and forbidden freedom that has existed for many centuries. Throughout history slavery was in a variety of different forms. Slavery was selling people to the wealthy. It was a form of trade for people to have someone to do the dirty work for them. It came to the point where people didn’t want to do this, and they were just kidnapped off the streets and taken away from the rest of the world into this unpleasant environment. Today,…

form of slavery involving the illegal trade of people for exploitation or commercial gain (1). While people are trafficked for a majority of reasons, the most common are sexual explotation are forced labor. According to a report released by the United Nation’s Office on Drugs and Crime, 53% of trafficking victims were exploited sexually, 40% were forced into labor, with 7% classified as ‘other’, which includes trafficking for…

dictionary, slavery is defined as a situation where one person has absolute power over another. Therefore, a slave is a person who is stripped of their liberty, dignity, and basic human rights. Slavery is an inhumane act that is seen as intolerable all around the world and is not lawful as constituted by the United Nations. Slavery is most often found to take place in developing countries where free labor draws in a massive profit. If a person in America was to be questioned about slavery, it is…

to the African slave trade. After times of reconstruction, post-civil war, the idea of capturing and selling women for personal gain became popular. These women were sold for multiple different reasons including but not limited to forceful labor, sexual assault, or complete prostitution. Throughout the history of women trafficking, within the United States of America, there has been controversy over the exact definition of women trafficking. Women trafficking is defined to be the illegal…

born into slavery in Antigua and had many different slave owners. Semsigul is a white female teenager who was sold into slavery in Istanbul under the Ottoman control. The Indians in Mexico were being forced into labor by the Spaniards. A comparison of Mary Prince, Semsigul and the Indians in Mexico will show the various forms of slavery, the legal aspect that shaped it, the effect on the individuals involved and why slavery was so difficult to eradicate. The various forms of slavery are…

According to a report provided by ILO, there are over 21 million people trapped in modern day slavery. ILO states that “Labor trafficking is the movement of persons for the purpose of forced labor and services”; which includes child trafficking victims. Both MNCs like Nike and Gap had been caught using sweatshops that uses trafficked children in the 1990s. 1. NIKE INC. In 1970, Nike was accused for using sweatshops in producing its shoes, clothing and sport equipment. Nike is produced in China,…