After seeing the movie Taken I now feel very paranoid. As someone who loves to travel this bothers me.For those who don't know, the movie is basically about this chick who disobeys her father, goes off to Paris and gets kidnapped and sold into human-trafficking. It really bothers me that this stuff still happens let alone that it's a billion-dollar business.
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I'm bothered
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Don't worry, Liam Neeson is around to save you!
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oh my gosh he's so hott!!RIP his wife
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As I understand it, the plot of the film is purely fictional.Although sex slavery with girls forced into prostitution does indeed still happen on a considerable scale, the victims are practically always from a poor background - either very young girls sold by their families, or young women promised attractive jobs, in the big cities or in the West, that turn out to be prostitution. The traditional 'white slave traffic' with good-looking white girls being kidnapped on the streets has probably always been a myth beaten up to make a good lurid story. Why would a slaver kidnap girls who will be missed, who will be searched for using the resources of the police, when he can get girls much more easily and safely in other ways?
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Frontline did a story on this some time back and while I don't remember the exact statistics the overwhelming majority of all such sex slaves are from impoverished families in more rural parts of Russia, former Soviet block countries and southeast Asia. People prey on the poor who's family and country of origin have no means or ability to track them down.Beyond that it has been claimed that many, but by no means all or even the majority, of the women have a vague idea of what they're getting into, whatever that means. They just don't know how bad it's going to be, how they are going to be treated or that they will have no choice in the matter once their there.
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I think it's worse in Thailand than anyplace else, percentage-wise. There, families sell their daughters into the trade as a matter of course.
