Shared by Lisa Thompson, The Salvation Army:
Dear Friends:
Here is a fabulous must read -- there are points here that will be helpful far beyond the shores of Australia.
Abolition!
Lisa
It's time to get serious about sex trafficking in Australia
Caroline Norma
October 13, 2011
Legalising prostitution has not made the women working safer.
Each week in Victoria, more than 60,000 men buy women in prostitution. Thanks to investigations like those carried out recently by The Age and Four Corners, we know that some of the women they buy have been trafficked.
Sex trafficking in Australia should not come as a surprise. Sex industry businesses find a burgeoning market here. According to the business research company IBISWorld, the Australian sex industry has ballooned over the past decade. High growth has forced pimps to forge international supply routes to source their ''product'', which, in the case of the sex industry, is mostly women and children. Asian women in particular are a consumer favourite.
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