VLORE, Albania -- It was only after her trafficker sealed her mouth with electrical tape, drugged her and threatened to kill her family that the childlike woman, now 27, says she realized that the man she had planned to marry had seduced her with a terrible lie.Her journey at age 18 from an Albanian village to a London brothel, where she said she spent five years working as a prostitute, began with a gold engagement ring, the promise of a better life abroad and -- like many before her -- a speedboat trip to Italy under the cover of night.So many women, men and children had been trafficked abroad to work as prostitutes, forced laborers or beggars that the Albanian government three years ago barred all Albanian citizens from using speedboats, the favored transportation used by traffickers to get people out of the country.
Her journey at age 18 from an Albanian village to a London brothel, where she said she spent five years working as a prostitute, began with a gold engagement ring, the promise of a better life abroad and -- like many before her -- a speedboat trip to Italy under the cover of night.
So many women, men and children had been trafficked abroad to work as prostitutes, forced laborers or beggars that the Albanian government three years ago barred all Albanian citizens from using speedboats, the favored transportation used by traffickers to get people out of the country.
At least drug addiction and associated social problems respond to legalisation. Nothing seems to stop prostitution being exploitative. keep to the Fen Causeway
I'm not convinced about that. (I.e. I am not convinced by the criticisms of the Swedish model.)
Nothing seems to stop prostitution being exploitative.
Yep. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
