Human Trafficking

Tuesday's class brought the first presentation of the year. And it was really interesting, but such a sad topic. I couldn't imagine having to research human trafficking without feeling so sad and almost sick inside. This topic is so powerful and so unbelievable that is lead to a great discussion about prostitution in class. We started talking how girls in third world countries are more apt to be put in prostitution than girls from the United States. Except if girls go abroad to travel and then they are taken that way to prostitution. When this was mentioned it made me think about a movie I had watched that dealt with teenage girls from the United States who went traveling overseas. Once they two girls landed, they met this guy who said that he would help them travel, but instead he lead his friends to their house and take them away. The movie was called "Taken". Once the two girls were captured, they were sent to a whore house to make these men more money. It was so sad that they got taken away to be drugged and then put in prostitution. The girl's friend, like many many other women or children in the world, didn't make it out of the house because she was so drugged up to be a prostitute that it wouldn't be worth saving her because she was so gone. I can't imagine being those daughters who are sold into prostitution to help a family get money for the rest of the family. I guess I kind of understand that a family needs money, and so the daughter should help in anyway she can, but selling her for prostitution is such a bad experience for the daughter. The daughter is at risk with so many things, the biggest is her life. The presentation was very informative about prostitution, and with the game, like candyland, showed how hard it was to get out of prostitution, without being hurt in some way.