A 17-YEAR-OLD girl, sold to lust-driven men, probably got an STD [sexually transmitted disease] along with her horrid sex experience.
Not a pretty picture, eh? But, yes, it’s happening and it’s everywhere, even in France and Cote d’Ivoire. The story about the innocent girl turned prostitute is very depressing. I think that the people responsible for this should rot in hell. They don’t have the right to manage girls especially if it’s like this.
I also think that the Filipino owner should be consumed by his conscience because he did something indecent to a fellow countryman. These things should never happen to guiltless girls. They should be busy with school, learning and dreaming of the best things life has to offer. They should not be bothered by dirty men that want them for a temporary high.
– Eunice Oquialda, Assumption College, San Lorenzo, Makati City (via e-mail)
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April 28th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
It’s really disgusting in our society that sex trade has continue to flourish despite intenational law on human trafficking,it’s indeed the innocent and the young ones are vunerable…There could be a solution on this,only if our concern goverment agencies could act fast and persecute the culprit by the fullest of the law…
April 28th, 2007 at 1:25 am
Welcome to the new age. Advancement in technology brings about global sexualization. No laws can prevail on internet porn which is feeding sexual appetite and lust. Prostitution, once local, is now global. Young girls are hot meat commodity traded many times over across international boundaries.
There is still good reason to reinstate death penalty.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
I do not know which specific case is referred to. But as aforeigner, knowing the Philippines since 30 years, I know the problem.
Of course, prostitution is everywhere but should not be a forced job. As long as there are people who want to pay for sex, there will bepeople offering themselves for money. Sure, people who force especially minors to sex business should be treated with the full strengyh of law.
At the other hand, like in Manila, there has been practically a “red light district” during the Marcos time. Any female who accepted to work therenew well what she has to expect. But at least, the matter has been possible to control since it was concentrated at a limited place and not in need to hide.
Later, all has been closed and declared illegal. The result was not the end of this kind of business but it dispersed and went into hide, therefore not to control anymore. And lastly, very many of the owners and financiers are still the same and styill the same “honorable people” than before and everywhere else. Common, poor people cannot afford to start and maintain such business, it needs a lot of money and influence.
What is now better, an open business that can be regulated and controlled, where even the “sex workers” can come and go free, or a hidden, suppressed sex business, out of control, wehere people are forced and abused because they have no rights in an illegal job.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
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