Gang membership is up 40 percent from 2009, with sex trafficking playing a significant role in expansion.
Shafer on Landesman
Peter Landesman’s 8,500-word feature about the sex-slave trade in the Jan. 25, 2004, New York Times Magazine, “The Girls Next Door,” has prompted six columns by Slate press critic Jack Shafer and a response by Times Magazine Editor Gerald Marzorati. Links to Shafer’s pieces, Marzorati’s response, as well as blogger Daniel Radosh’s critical piece and his 2005 exchange with Landesman follow.
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The Manhattan district attorney’s office is using a sex trafficking law to redefine its approach, treating women who work for ringleaders as victims and not criminals.
More Kristof
Not Quite a Teen, Yet Sold for Sex
If you think sex trafficking only happens in faraway places like Nepal or Thailand, then you should listen to an expert on American sex trafficking I interviewed the other day. But, first, wish her happy birthday. She turns 16 years old on Thursday.
Financiers and Sex Trafficking
THE biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States appears to be a Web site called Backpage.com.
Where Pimps Peddle Their Goods
I WENT on a walk in Manhattan the other day with a young woman who once had to work these streets, hired out by eight pimps while she was just 16 and 17. She pointed out a McDonald’s where pimps sit while monitoring the girls outside, and a building where she had repeatedly been ordered online as if she were a pizza.
When I write about human trafficking as a modern form of slavery, people sometimes tune out as their eyes glaze over. So, Glazed Eyes, meet Srey Pov.
Fighting Back, One Brothel Raid at a Time
AGAINST my better judgment, I found myself the other day charging into a well-armed brothel in a police raid. But I was comforted to be with one of my heroes, Somaly Mam.
She’s 10 and Now May Be Sold to a Brothel
M. is an ebullient girl, age 10, who ranks near the top of her fourth-grade class and dreams of being a doctor. Yet she, like all of India, is at a turning point, and it looks as if her family may instead sell her to a brothel.
Anyone who thinks it is hyperbole to describe sex trafficking as slavery should look at the maimed face of a teenage girl, Long Pross.
Nicholas Kristof discusses human trafficking in Cambodia.
