trafficing and giant lizards
Reading the Swedish online tabloids is getting on my nerves (yes i know i should stop instead of complaining…) The other day it was a fabricated story about a mind reading machine. And now today in an article about a fossile of a pliosaur aka. predator X in Svalbard. They managed to place Svalbard in Scandinavia. Well it is quite a long way from the Scandinavian Peninsula to Svalbard…
In another article someone is upset about prostitution on one of the boats inbetwen Sweden and Latvia. And they call it trafficking.
Human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, harbouring, or receipt of people for the purposes of slavery, forced labor (including bonded labor or debt bondage), and servitude. (Definition frrecruitmentom wikipedia.)
Well i guess there could be cases where trafficking wictims are transported or recruited on the boats, but prostitution is the act of selling sexual services. And trafficking is the slave trade. So could we please keep the two things seperate so we know what we are talking about, that would help much more that whining in a tabloid.
3 Responses to “trafficing and giant lizards”
Det jag reagerade är inte vad artikeln menade utan vad frågan var och den var om trafficking är ett problem och det anser jag att det är. Fattar inte att det finns kunder till dessa tjejer.
By Rospiggen on Mar 18, 2009
Hi – I’m interested in the “stop human trafficing” or “abolition of slavery” movement. One of the problems is that many people think people who are enslaved, for sexual reasons, are doing so of their own free will, when they are actually slaves. One way that the “slaveholders” confuse the issue is by calling the these people “prostitutes” – so, yes, there is confusion and it’s purposeful – also, if you read about prostitution (selling sex)you’ll find that many people are not even in prostitution of their own free will – it’s a technicality – there are pimps and others feeding off of them. I know there are “sex-workers” who are actually doing this of their own free will, but most prostitutes have been victims of past abuse and have an easy time falling into “the oldest profession”. I am totally against prostitution and human trafficing – I don’t want girls (or boys) to grow up with the attitude that they are just a piece of meat and all that goes with it. Anyway, just blowing off steam about the issue. Some of my best friends (were) prositutes, so I know. Rita R.
By rita on Mar 18, 2009
One of the most effective ways to combat the problems within prostitution and human trafficking for sex slavery (which are two different concepts that can overlap) would be to legalize and regulate prostitution for those who wish to enter into the world’s oldest profession of their own free will, with the dignity of being a legal worker, charging and paying taxes for your services, receiving close medical care and regular STD screenings. This would provide the customers of prostitutes a legal alternative that will take business away from the pimps and criminal groups that are involved in pressuring or forcing people into prostitution and make it less profitable for criminal groups to engage in human trafficking.
But your post wasn’t just about that, it was more about the outrageous and imprecise populist Swedish tabloid press… and I fully agree with that. The worst part about papers like Aftonbladet is that many Swedish people consider it real news. I don’t know how the situation is in the UK, but in USA there is a huge difference between tabloids and newspapers, but Sweden’s tabloids are like a mixture of US tabloids (which are totally and completely ‘far out there’, always stories and pictures about alien babies, bigfoot caught sunbathing in Hawai’i, etc.) and newspapers… This mixture of fact and fiction and sloppy journalism mixed with important issues causes Swedish readers to become stupid and reinforces many of the arbitrary prejudices that Swedish people have.
By Gustav on Nov 13, 2009