Caribbean Sex Trade
March 6, 2008
Guyana, Suriname, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil and Jamaica are known for intercontinental sex trade more so in the Caribbean and to a lesser extent, internationally. Criminal groups send their members into indigent communities to gather women who are desperate to entertain a improved life style. These unsavory characters mislead these women about immigrating to the U.S, Canada and other parts of the world where life is a much more pleasant to live. In many cases I here of these characters lure women and prevaricate about attaining work permits and working for large sums in hotel management and other large business enterprises. These men would end up either selling these women and children to make a profit while others upon reaching there destination would be forced into sexual slavery since after reaching, they would be told of the large sums of money they owed for getting there.
In many cases these women and children are between the ages 11-24 years. Imagine, some have not reached the age of menstruation and many don’t have no idea what sex is. Most of them do not have a primary education because they are living in an undeveloped country struggling with poverty and hunger with no way our, hoping for an opportunity to work and help their family.
These young girls, after being trafficked, are forced into labor, and since they are told of the large sums of money they owe and must repay, they become dancers and sex workers since these are the only opportunities available to them through the contacts that of the individuals who traded them. Some of their women accept offers of forced marriages, later finding themselves caught in situations of extreme cruelty, forced labor and sexual abuse.
These women who are trafficked are terrified of speaking about their experiences or working conditions in fear of their employers holding their salaries, illegal confinement, deportation, and while having no documents to identify themselves at the same time illegally occupying a country, they are unable to return home.
Dear Reader, imagine what it must feel like for a teenage girl being kidnapped, raped, bought and sold by affluent men. These innocent souls have no money, no stable family, anywhere to go and usually end up doing sex work and thus mentally scarred and stigmatized for life. Why do men commit these acts? These women are someone’s daughter, sister or in many case someone’s wife. Our world is has enough brutality, men killing other for materialistic gain. We have “holy wars” being fought with guns and women being used in kamikaze missions. Where has the world gone wrong? Why do human beings have their priorities twisted to the point where they plunder, pillage, and steal precious life? I strongly feel that the human race will destroy all that was created on God’s green earth. It saddens me to hear stories of young women hoodwinked and taken to strange countries to have sex with dirty old men for a few dollars. Do some human beings feel that they will never have to account for their actions on earth? Or do they feel that no one is watching them? It is sad to or world being destroyed by man’s greed and ignorance.
The Caribbean sex trade is bigger then ever and is quite possibly going to get even larger as cost of living across the globe increases and becomes unbearable in many vulnerable communities? I am open to any suggestions as to how an initiative could be drawn up as to curb the large sums of human trafficking. Living in Guyana and having living limited Internet access and thus limited global information flow, I only recently found out that in East Asia, girls as young as five years old are being sold to men as old as sixty years old. I had the opportunity to view snippets of a story covered by CNBC TV in regards to human trafficking and the sex industry in East Asia and it was the very thing that saw on the net was portrayed on the program. I cannot explain what I feel when writing this article as a human being and more so as a women.
Readers, do you have any thoughts on the subject matter?
Apsana
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Stacey Derbinshire
It’s sad to see that people would do such a horrific thing to another human, i’m stationed in Hawaii and there is more prostitution and drugs here than you can imagine as a marine we got to watch our backs at all time, you may think that hawaii is part of the 50 states, but there is so much hostility towards marines but you don’t hear about it in the news, but what goes on in this world is sad i have been saying we need to stop fighting for oil and fight for a good cause if i had my way and funds i would have my own militia and go after all these tugs in the world you may say why fight fire with fire, you may not like men like me, but my evil is a necessary evil
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”
it’s time we fight back it’s not right but it’s what has to be done.