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A bit wary about getting into cars: protecting prostitutes in Europe. | 35 comments (35 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: protecting prostitutes (4.00 / 5)
It's worse, prostitutes "imported" from Eastern Europe (and I guess Africa too) are often tricked or kidnapped girls whose will is broken in industrial fashion with rape, violence, taking away papers and money, and 'demonstrating' that police is corrupt (=there is no one to turn to).

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Dec 16th, 2006 at 08:11:40 AM EST
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Re: protecting prostitutes (4.00 / 4)
That is the case in Spain and it seems every couple of months we hear of a ring broken up that 1) is from Eastern Europe, but always has a Spaniard involved, 2) it is criminally violent, 3) operates in 2 or more cities.

This proves (there is corruption?) the security breach at the Northern Spanish border, which is minor news because the rafts-of-death coming from Africa are so shocking.

There was a proposed legalization of prostitution in Catalunya, by a female pol. no less, that I don´t know if it passed.

It is hard to believe that around 1968 I heard the term "white trade" for the first time and Spain was then a source of women for... Arab countries?  (Oil-rich Arabs were buying out the south coast at the time.)

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.

by metavision on Sun Dec 17th, 2006 at 08:23:51 AM EST
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Re: protecting prostitutes (none / 1)
In the sixties to eighties, blonde female visitors to Turkey were warned by the tourist office to watch out for themselves. Apparently with good reason. I know someone who went there in a group a few decades ago, and one blonde female member of the group disappeared in Istambul.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun Dec 17th, 2006 at 09:15:46 AM EST
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A bit wary about getting into cars: protecting prostitutes in Europe. | 35 comments (35 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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