Legality?

As I have been studying sex slavery and human trafficking, a few questions keep coming to mind. Why has human trafficking risen so much in recent years? Why is sex slavery so predominant? I mean this atrocity is pretty much detested across political and religious lines. It goes beyond the pimps and the traffickers. It goes beyond just "sex slavery". What is the root cause? It is the legalization and acceptance of prostitution. It is our culture. Culture has created a demand for it. Our culture has become so sexualized. Porn and the objectification of women being at the forefront. We have perverted what it means to be a man. The role of man has been lost. The importance of that role has been diminished.

In Greece, I profoundly felt this. When I looked at the girls in the streets, I knew that the majority of the people who put them there were men. The ones going after their services were men. I am not going to bash on men here. I did not have feelings that men are despicable, but rather I saw the importance of men.
Prostitution and sex slavery is a direct result of the perversion of the role that God has placed men in.
It does not even have to be Christian men, but men as a whole. I think there are standards and an intrinsic order to how God has set up the world. You do this.. this happens. Men I believe are meant to love and directly from that love.. to protect. Respect is an act of love. What happens when a boy is not taught to respect women? What happens when we take away a man's role as a leader and a protector? I am not saying that women are inferior or weaker and meant to be subordinate to all men. I am saying that I believe men have a duty to protect and to be I guess for lack of a better words.. warriors..fighters. What happens when society castrates men? It is agreed upon that a man that uses and abuses a woman is not really a man. How does this change when it comes to prostitution or even porn? Sexual exploitation is sexual exploitation. Why is it when you see a girl who is struggling through life.. it is always said.. Oh she has dad issues? Families are falling apart, children are hurting, and our country suffers because of the lack of knowledge of what it means to be a real man. Women are definitely not off the hook. Who do you think castrated half these men? Who has detested the role of men? Who has diminished and lessened the importance of real men? Ladies, I would like you to raise your hands. In our quest to be "equal" we forgot that we are different. Taking control of your sexuality.. what a joke.. you just made it easy to be used.. and ten dollars says that at the end of the day some part of you still hurts. Making a man respect you is as much for you as it is for him. Teaching and demanding a boy to respect women and girls is of the utmost importance. This becomes hard when there is no Dad to display that, but I do believe mothers have alot of say in the matter. Once again, we come back to the importance of a good father. Some fathers pass away, but they were good, as long as they were good. Because a father will flavor the kind of man that boy will become.

Sorry for my incomplete tangent.

Sweden actually made it illegal to visit a prostitute. They did not make it illegal to be a prostitute in order to shift the prosecution to the men. They figured if they cut the demand by prosecuting the users.. there would be a reduction of sex slavery. And it worked. Prostitution is a direct link to sex slavery. Where prostitution is legal.. sex slavery abounds. Gunilla Ecksberg was a leading woman in the implementation of the legislation in Sweden. She terms prostitution as male violence against women. This is the angle at which she attacked human trafficking and sex slavery.

"If prostitution is male violence against women, then it is a crime and consequently, there is a perpetrator. So, we need to focus on all the perpetrators in the debate on prostitution, not just the traffickers or the pimps, but the immediate perpetrator – the man who commits the prostitution act on the prostituted woman who is no different than a rapist."

The whole choice thing.. when does any girl really have a choice?

"They boil prostitution down to individual choice. If you analyze choice you recognize that choice is only possible if you choose from equal alternatives. You have to distinguish between making a decision and having a genuine choice....Pimps, traffickers, and buyers as sex tourists go to countries where women exist in oppressive social, political, legal and economic contexts or where there have been armed conflicts or natural catastrophes...to recruit and purchase women and girls into the prostitution industry. And when you look at prostitution/trafficking within countries, it’s the same thing. Men exploit the fact that women are marginalized/oppressed for different reasons e.g.. their victims may be girls who’ve run away from home because they’re being raped by their fathers or other male relatives, or women who are vulnerable due to drug use, leaving battering husbands etc."

The whole glitz and glamour of prostitution is a lie. Let us talk about the act of prostitution and its effects on society.

" Second Question: What do men do to women in prostitution? The pro-prostitution lobby will never answer the second question. They talk about how it’s dangerous to be prostituted on street corners because you risk being murdered, and how much better women will fare in legal brothels, but they never talk about the actual prostitution act that the buyers do to the women: the penetration, the touching, the humiliation. And this is the same wherever women and being prostituted. If they would talk about the prostitution act and understand profoundly the harm of prostitution, their whole analytic context would fall apart. It’s easy to talk about health standards and gynecological exams, but when we talk about the actual prostitution act, they can’t handle that and have no arguments.
The third question is: (3) What are the effects of prostitution on the women in prostitution as well as society at large? Prostitution doesn’t just have individual impacts on women in prostitution. It impacts all women in that society. If you have a country that thinks it’s appropriate and acceptable that women are to be for sale then you normalize the idea that men have the right to buy and sexually exploit not just a particularly marginalized subclass of women, but all of us."

This woman is very obviously a strong feminist. I am not a feminist or rather I think in christian communities we do not like to use that word. But Jesus I believe was the first feminist. In that he brought great amount of respect and love for women. He cherished them. Especially those like Mary Magdelene who had been so rejected and hurt in life. I mean what is the commandment that the Lord gave to husbands. To LOVE their wives. How wonderful. To LOVE. What a great God we serve. Women were meant to be loved. Prostitution. Sex slavery. This is a perversion of mans love.

If you would like to read Gunilla Ecksburgs interview here it is: http://action.web.ca/home/catw/readingroom.shtml?x=124788

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Ephesians 5:25-28
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.