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The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade
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Manufacturer: Arcade Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9781559707794
ISBN: 1559707798
Label: Arcade Publishing
Manufacturer: Arcade Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2005-09-12
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Studio: Arcade Publishing
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On the black market, they're the third most profitable com- modity, after illegal weapons and drugs-the only difference being that these goods are human, though to their handlers they are wholly expendable. They are women and girls, some as young as 12, from all over the Eastern bloc, where sinister networks of organized crime have become entrenched in the aftermath of the collapse of Communist regimes. In Israel, they're called Natashas, whether they're actually from Russia, Bosnia, the Czech Republic, or Ukraine, no matter what their real names may be. They're lured into vans and onto airplanes with promises of jobs as waitresses, mod-els, nannies, dishwashers, maids, and dancers. But when they arrive at their destinations, they are stripped of their identifi-cation, and their nightmare begins. They are sold into pros-titution and kept enslaved; those who resist are beaten, raped, and sometimes killed as examples. They often have nowhere to turn; in many cases, the men who should be res- cuing them-from immigration officials to police officers and international peacekeepers-are among their aggressors.
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Summary: The book that started my research
Comment: Victor Malarek's book, "The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade" is to date the most compelling, readable book on trafficking that I have come across. While other books on trafficking focus on statistics (or lack of), policy, and Tier rankings, Malarek goes deeper. His book actually explains the above things and for good measure, he actually goes to different trafficking spots and reports on corrupt police, women jumping off balconies onto tanks to escape, and how contractors and "peacekeeping forces" are implicit in the traffic.
His account of the DynCorp issue and the subsequent...nothing that resulted after the Army investigated remain some of the most solid evidence to show that there is something desperately wrong ...and that there are Americans going unpunished. Men buying women ("She can't be a day over twelve")and keeping them as slaves in their rooms while working for DynCorp abroad is worth the price of the book alone.
Eyeopening and opinionated, I trust this author. He went out and got the information himself instead of rehashing the same questionable statistics over again (14,500-17,500 people are estimated to be trafficked into the U.S. per year - empirical data-based or imaginary State Department number?) Additionally, he was raised in group-home settings in Canada, which gives him street cred in my eyes.
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Summary: Powerful book that delves deep into Human Trafficking!!!
Comment: I read this book while on vacation and once I started reading I could not stop. I read the entire book within 24 hours! It is simply amazing and quite powerful.
In shocking detail the author describes as to what happens to people mostly young teenage women from Eastern Europe that are victims of sex trafficking. They are manipulated and tricked into going to other countries promising a future in a new job that is completely unrelated to prostitution, e.g., waitressing, modelling, travel agency work, etc. However, once they are at their destination, they are told they need to pay for their trip expenses and cannot leave until they have paid off their debt- in many instances, they die due to disease, murder, or simply abandoned because they are not marketable anymore. Should any of these women oppose, they are usually beaten, raped (often), or tortured until they have succumbed to their pimps and in many instances, murdered.
To suggest that most women have a choice in prostitution is simply naive and moronic. What's worse, in many instances most women are forced into it and in the instances where they are not forced to become prostitutes, it is either that or starvation. People who advocate for prostitution should take a step back and attempt to analyze it for what prostitution really is- exploitation for money.
More amazing is U.S. government complicity in human trafficking in Bosnia via the Department of Defense's subcontractor- DynCorp, Inc. In many instances, Dyncorp employees wer buying and selling teenage girls often leaving them to live in cages or squalor. Quite disturbing but not unheard of!!!
This book is a masterpiece narrative on human trafficking!!! You will be shocked and you will or want to cry. But nevertheless, a traumatic narrative that must be told about human trafficking and its impact on the human population in the 21st century.
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Summary: Shock and Appall tactics, but read with open mind
Comment: On sitting down to read this book, I was expecting to discover the full extent of what has been called a modern form of slavery and naturally, to be shocked, appalled and outraged.
Actually, upon finishing this book, I was left rather wondering how feminists can exploit real suffering and turn it into a wedge to pursue their own primitive sexual ends. And if, as is probably likely, the evil of sexual trafficking does exist albeit on a much smaller scale than rants like this book and the general media would have you believe, that is a real pity if not an absolute disgrace.
Whilst proclaiming to be an expose of the kidnapping and forcing into prostitution of East European women, the author wastes no opportunity in making his fundamentalist objections to prostitution clear, though (as is the modus operandi of feminists) cleverly splicing together descriptions of real abuse (ie. sexual trafficking) with moral judgements on the ultimate object of rage (ie.prostitution in general). Most accounts of individual 'Natashas' are interwoven with ridiculous and judgemental statements such as 'how could anyone believe that a woman would want to have sex with strangers willingly?'.
Such dishonest tactics and absurd generalisations should chill anyone who approaches this book with an open-mind, and leave one to question every single statement and alleged fact it contains. It appears to a feminist, and to the author of this book, that no woman would willingly exchange half an hours use of her body for cash, and if she does so, she is in fact a victim nethertheless and clearly in denial about her status as such. To repeat, this simply renders the book useless as an objective account of sexual trafficking.
Try to read this book with an open mind. Note that before the last soccer world cup was held in Germany feminists were howling that 40,000 women would be trafficked unless prostitution was immediately outlawed. Prostitution was not outlawed, not even for the duration of the world cup. The police later revealed that 5 cases of prostitution linked to human trafficking had been found during the competition, 1/8000 of the level that feminists had predicted.
And yes, it is possible that a woman from Eastern Europe might choose of her own volition to seek a better standard of living by having sex with disabled men or with the increasing number of lonely buisnessmen whose wives have dumped them for a 'bigger' black man. If millions of them are willing to come to the west to work in souless factories than surely thousands are willing to come freely to earn thousands of pounds a day for having sex with men who have, in one way or another, been sexually rejected by other women.
It used to be that the average female regarded prostitutes as cheap, disgusting whores, much as most women now openly regard other females who sleep around, go out in thongs etc. to be sluts/whores. Now however, under the guise of feminism, they pretend to see prostitutes as 'victims' in need of rescue. Scratch below the surface however and you will realise that they still see them as nasty scabs bringing down the collective sexual bargaining power of women over men. It simply serves their present purposes to pretend that the man is their object of fury.
This book is a perfect example of the shameless way in which modern feminists exploit and degrade the real suffering of women and children in order to further their own selfish, primitive, simean sexual reproductive stratagies. The male author of this book should be thoroughly ashamed of his part in the willing slavery of contemporary manhood to the regressive moral womb of manipulative and selfish feminism.
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Summary: "Freedom", grinding poverty, corruption, and dregs of humanity make life hell for 100,000s of women
Comment: I read enough of this disturbing book to get the basic premise: Women in poor counties are basically a commodity to used, abused, and discarded when no longer profitable.
The free world rejoiced when iron curtain of the Evil Empire came down. Now Eastern Europe has McDonald's, a new found "freedom" that caused the Soviet Union to collapse, and a burgeoning mafia that is so virulent they are often better armed than the police, and in other cases they are one in the same or they control the police. This is evidenced by the fact that police refuse to do anything about the large scale kidnapping and forced prostitution of women and girls. Often it goes on in plain sight of the police. After seeing film footage and hearing stories about how people lived under the Communist regime I wouldn't have thought it couldn't have gotten much worse but apparently I was wrong. It certainly doesn't appear to have improved any.
Trafficking in women is apparently widespread and quite lucrative. Particularly daunting is how many of the women were lured into the snares of pimps by the treachery of family members and so called friends or pillars of the community. In some rural communities in Eastern European countries the abduction of young girls is so widespread parents won't let their daughters walk to school (cars are something we take for granted in the US). In several cases these young women are university educated but there are no jobs for them in their respective countries. In one case (I saw on TV) a woman from Moldova who was kidnapped was lured with the promise of a clerk job making a whopping US$100 a month!
All this left me wondering about the demand, without which this modern day slave trade would cease to exist. Descriptions of women beaten to a pulp, locked down in filthy warehouses, and guarded by thugs might cause one to wonder just what kind of creeps would "patronize" such an "establishment." Apparently they are nice normal men with respectable jobs, often with NGO's and peacekeeping forces, and no doubt the local police; in other words the very people who should be trying to help these women.
The author doesn't really give a lot of information that hasn't already been on TV. He also doesn't offer any hope as far as what any of us in the US and other wealthy nations can do to end this abomination. This book left me depressed but evermore grateful that I live in America where there are plenty of jobs, even jobs that most Americans don't want; the kind that the Natashas would consider themselves lucky to have.
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Summary: A brilliant call to action
Comment: The fall of the soviet union opened up eastern europe to one things: money for sex. The rotten Soviet economy caused the people to be impoverished but at the same time it had offered them education so they were not willing to live a meager life, as many do in Africa and elsehwere, then the state had made them 'open minded' and thus there was no traditional soceity to take care of young women and support them, so they were lured by jobs abroad and sold into slavery. PRimarily they went to Western Europe where "open democratic progressive" soceity tolerated the enslavement of more than a million prositutes. These women were kept chained up 'servicing' "enlightened" europeans, the same europeans who condemn 'human rights abuses' and they serviced these Germans and French and other europeans who couldnt rape 12-15 year olds in their own countries. In addition these sex slaves were bought and sold by NATO and UN troops in Bosnia, which became a center in the trade and traffiking in women in the 1990s after it became a colony of NATO and the UN.
This is a brilliant book, heartrending and tragic. However despite the fact that it exposes the role of the UN and western europeans in the sex-salve trade in eastern european women it doesnt shed light on either the origins of the illness, Communism, or the more racist and colonialistic aspects of this. Western Europeans, who pretend to beleive in human rights, are overwhelmingly the clients who purchase these slaves' services and it is also the West that has created this and tolerated it. The same west that likes to lecture these eastern european nations on 'democracy'. It should have been pointed out the blatent hypocrisy that takes place whereby Western europe colonized Eastern europe to enslave its women and literally rape it.
A tragic story.
Seth J. Frantzman
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