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2006-05-26 Europe

WND : 40,000 women 'sex trafficked' for World Cup

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-26 07:17|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Wooden "sex huts" or "performance boxes" have been built in fenced-in areas the size of a football field, with condoms, showers and parking and a special focus on protecting the customers' anonymity.

Wow. That's class!

Posted by tu3031 2006-05-26 08:32|| 2006-05-26 08:32|| Front Page Top

#2 But you see, Germany is so SOPHISTICATED and MORAL.

Pfeh.

Posted by lotp 2006-05-26 08:47|| 2006-05-26 08:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Which flags will be flying?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2006-05-26 09:00|| 2006-05-26 09:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Something about the using the phrase "performance boxes" when discussing prostitution caused my brain to lock up.

This would be funny if it wasn't for the fact that many of these women have no idea what they are in for.

Posted by GORT 2006-05-26 09:15|| 2006-05-26 09:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Or they do and were forced into it.

The eastern European mafia - especially the Russian mafia - have been trafficking girls as young as 13 for prostitution in the west. Often the parents are desperate for money and close their eyes to what they probably know is happening. The girls have no choice.

My contempt for the Germans on this issue is beyond putting into words.

Posted by lotp 2006-05-26 09:24|| 2006-05-26 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 A perfect opportunity to hide a few video cameras in the "performance" areas and show streaming videos of the "customers" faces on a dedicated website while masking out the prostitutes' faces. Broadcast the videos for all to see-including inquiring wives. That'll liven up the debate.

I love the entreprenneurial spirit. :)

Posted by Jules 2006-05-26 10:22|| 2006-05-26 10:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Not just the Germans here. It's the whole human trade networks that need to be taken down. This really is not about prostitution. As far as I'm concerned, if a woman wants to do that it's her call. The Russian, Korean, and Chinese Mafias that buy, sell and enslave women and children are where the anger should be directed. This is where the church seems to miss the real point. It's not about the sex and prostitution, the real issue is taking people against their will and selling them as a commodity into slavery. These scum that exploit the weak deserve a slow painful death.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-05-26 10:27|| 2006-05-26 10:27|| Front Page Top

#8 In December, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill that strengthens the nation's current human trafficking law ....... ~~and requested maps to the "mega-brothel" in Berlin.~~

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-26 10:52|| 2006-05-26 10:52|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm sure Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International will get right on it. Right after they investigate this non air conditioned room in GITMO used to house feral animals.....

The disgusting thing is that the German Government appears allows this. After all they allow this huge ~~whorehouse~~ complex to be build (was it with tax dollars?).

Its as bad as the 'Comfort Women' of Imperial Japan during WWII.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-05-26 10:57|| 2006-05-26 10:57|| Front Page Top

#10 "...the real issue is taking people against their will and selling them as a commodity into slavery..."

Good point. I had to get snarky in #6, but this is the real issue.

Posted by Jules 2006-05-26 11:15|| 2006-05-26 11:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Most of this is hype. That is, there is a difference between someone who is "forced" into prostitution, and those who *say* they are forced into prostitution.

While the latter always insist that what they are doing is involuntary, it is always predicated on "ifs".

That is, for example, "If somebody would just give me all the stuff I want, then I wouldn't be *forced* to be a prostitute."

Many "voluntary" prostitutes have a very similar psychology. A combination of very low self-esteem (for which a lot of finger rings and bracelets is a dead giveaway), and a severe addiction to "attention" from others.

This latter is how a pimp keeps control over their prostitutes: dancing with them one minute, slapping them around the next. The form of attention doesn't matter, positive or negative, just that the pimp gives them attention. It can be as addictive as a drug to them.

Things are further muddied because organized crime is involved in both voluntary and involuntary prostitution.

For a large public event like the World Cup, the imported prostitutes would be almost entirely voluntary. First of all, a different country, where legal prostitution has existing rules and a bureaucracy aware of its operations.

Second, the German polizei will have zero tolerance to any unauthorized mischief they get wind of. A human trafficker will be operting in the open mouth of a lion, and they know this; but a legal prostitution operation is fine and dandy--low risk, high reward.

Involuntary prostitutes have to be kept on a tight leash, in a controlled situation, and with a clientele motivated not to spill the beans, like UN personnel. That is why they are kept locally and under strict supervision at all times.

That is why the vast majority of involuntary prostitutes are kept in Moslem countries.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-26 11:28|| 2006-05-26 11:28|| Front Page Top

#12 "Vy, some uff dose frauliens are de best vriends I haff!"

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-05-26 11:32|| 2006-05-26 11:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Zeig Heil Heir McCollough!!!

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-05-26 11:53|| 2006-05-26 11:53|| Front Page Top

#14 I'll bet some boxes will be better than others. Wouldn't surprise me at all to find that some of the politicians moralizing on this issue end up being sponsored in the corporate suites.

Posted by DoDo 2006-05-26 12:02|| 2006-05-26 12:02|| Front Page Top

#15 Second, the German polizei will have zero tolerance to any unauthorized mischief they get wind of.

The Germans have the world's most honest vice cops.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-26 12:16|| 2006-05-26 12:16|| Front Page Top

#16 Jules, loved the snark, we could sell air time.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-05-26 12:45|| 2006-05-26 12:45|| Front Page Top

#17 Where the hell is the United Nations on this issue?

What?

Oh.

Never mind.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-05-26 14:42|| 2006-05-26 14:42|| Front Page Top

#18 ... the country's sex industry has built a massive prostitution complex, including a "mega-brothel" in Berlin, next to the main World Cup venue, that can accommodate 650 male clients. Wooden "sex huts" or "performance boxes" have been built in fenced-in areas the size of a football field ... (emphasis mine)

"Fenced-in" to keep the reporters out and the chattel property in. Sex lagers. Will the German government be kind enough to erect "Arbeit Macht Frei" signs over the gates?

Posted by mrp 2006-05-26 15:47|| 2006-05-26 15:47|| Front Page Top

#19 why not just strap em in stirrups and hose em off periodically? Jeebus

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-26 16:46|| 2006-05-26 16:46|| Front Page Top

#20 Since the German Govt and Society tolerate prostitution, i.e. so-called "victimless crime(s), is this the German equivalent of the "illegals" issue?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-26 20:24|| 2006-05-26 20:24|| Front Page Top

#21 Maybe this is an attempt to get that sagging birth rate on the up tick.

Posted by wxjames 2006-05-26 21:20|| 2006-05-26 21:20|| Front Page Top

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