The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade
by Victor Malarek
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Author: Victor MalarekEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-12
ISBN: 1559707798
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
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Book Review: Powerful book that delves deep into Human Trafficking!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Summary of The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade
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.Psychology & Counseling Books
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