In many places of the world the sex trade was created or vastly expanded by colonisers and military. Those roots have morphed into modern "sex" tourism. Its rape when a man exploits the desperate poverty of racialized women in countries his military tried to brutally control.
https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1435371927791550470
Online you can see white wealthy "sex" tourists posting images of themselves with Asian women on their laps. The women frown in every picture, the men gleeful, cause they can act like brutal kings by virtue of their wealth that came in part from not letting her country up for air
The modern "sex" tourism industry continues to hold women and girls (duh "sex" tourists rape kids) and their countries' economies hostage. "What else will feed these families?" Families that often have to hand over daughter after daughter cause this system isn't supposed to end.
Women are not going to individually empower themselves out of this extreme and systematic oppression. You're not gonna "labour rights" your way out of this. Unwanted sex is rape. There is no "harm reduction" in rape, "harm reduction" is capitulation before a hostage situation.
While there is demand women and girls (men, boys & trans people) will be found to meet it. Formerly colonised, brutally militarised and impoverished regions are ideal for recruitment but if one recovers we move on to new shores. There is always war somewhere or its brutal legacy.
For the nth time I wonder how anyone on the left can possibly support a system that is so clearly underpinned by absolutely everything we proclaim to fight against. "Society needs brothels" is what fashists, (legitimized) warlords and dictators sign their name to.
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