What Is Sexual Exploitation, Labor Exploitation And State-Forced Labor?

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Every year, 21 million children, adolescents, and adults are forced into sexual exploitation, labor exploitation, and state-imposed labor. Around one fifth of forced laborers fall into the category of sexual exploitation. Any child or adult that has been trafficked into forced labor are known as slaves. The main difference between slavery and forced labor is that the forced laborer would traditionally be kidnapped and forced into slavery while a customary slave would be owned by someone and work for them exclusively. According to an article published by CQ Global Researchers, the State Department, it states the following:
“If the child appears to be in the custody of a non-family member who has the child perform work that financially …show more content…

In fact we all learned ever since elementary school the immoral history of slavery and how the emancipation of it in 1865. So what happened? History shows all the way back to Ancient Greece and India that society in both regions had instituted a prostitution system that bureaucratized. Prostitution was even recorded in the Bible. In the book of Hosea, many theologians believe that the story of Hosea and his wife Gomer, who was a prostitute, was a prophecy of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In the story of Hosea and his wife, Hosea marries a prostitute under God’s command. Gomer commits adultery as a prostitute, going back to her old life, yet Hosea still accepts her back as his wife, acting as a mirror of God’s love. Napoleon was so concerned about his soldier’s health during war, which brought him to hiring what we will come to know as “comfort women,” throughout multiple wars in world history. See, we do not see the enslavement and sexual exploitation of women and children until war. Military and colonial authorities took advantage of comfort women, which are prostitutes for soldiers during wars. The purpose of comfort women was to create a sexual outlet for soldiers who were either single or away from their wives for …show more content…

Instead of using outlets like masturbation and homosexuality, the officials thought it would be more appropriate and respectful toward abstinence to use women and sexual outlets. This stretched on for long periods of time. Soon enough the wars ended and these women were no longer being utilized, which brought prostitution to being modernized. Many families were struck by poverty which led them to sell their daughters to be married, a bureaucratized form as prostitution. While this method was legally marriage, these husbands would have multiple “wives” and run their homes like prison, like comfort stations. This went on for decades. As this modernized and bureaucratized version of prostitution moves on, we see acts being put in place to abolish slavery as early as 1910. In 1910, the White Slave Traffic Act was put in place after cases were received of women being drugged and abducted. During WWII, the Japanese fashioned a structure called “comfort stations.” Comfort stations consisted of women being held in small rooms, battered, tormented, and raped. Many of these women were not even Japanese volunteering; they were prisoners the Japanese had captured from Korea, China, and Thailand. As we fast forward to today, nothing has

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