Sexual slavery is a special case of slavery which includes various different practices: Slave redirects here. ...

1. forced prostitution
2. single-owner sexual slavery
3. ritual slavery, sometimes associated with traditional religious practices
4. slavery for primarily non-sexual purposes where sex is common or permissible

In general, the nature of slavery means that the slave is de facto available for sex, and ordinary social conventions and legal protections that would otherwise constrain an owner's actions are not effective. Female slaves are at highest risk of sexual abuse and sexual slavery. Whore redirects here. ...

The term "sex slave" and "consensual sexual slavery" are sometimes used in BDSM to refer to a consensual agreement between sexual partners (see also total power exchange). This should not be confused with the meaning of the term as defined in this article, which refers specifically to unwilling slavery. A collar is a common symbol in BDSM. Female bottom in bondage with leather monoglove BDSM is any of a number of related patterns of human sexual behavior. ... Informed consent is a legal condition whereby a person can be said to have given consent based upon a full appreciation and understanding of the facts and implications of any actions, with the individual being in possession of all of his faculties (not mentally retarded or mentally ill), and his... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with 24/7 (BDSM). ...

Modern-day sexual slavery

Forced prostitution

Forced prostitution is a form of sexual slavery that is often directed at immigrants to Western and Asian countries. Often the "owners" of these people will confiscate passports and/or money in order to make them completely dependent. This practice, also known as sex trafficking or human trafficking, is illegal in most countries. Whore redirects here. ...

Human trafficking is not the same as people smuggling. A smuggler will facilitate illegal entry into a country for a fee, but on arrival at their destination, the smuggled person is free; the trafficking victim is enslaved. Traffickers use coercive tactics including deception, fraud, intimidation, isolation, threat and use of physical force, debt bondage or even force-feeding with drugs to control their victims. Women are typically recruited with promises of good, legal jobs in other countries or provinces, or are tricked into a false 'marriage', and, lacking better options at home, agree to migrate. Traffickers arrange the travel and job placements, the women are escorted to their destinations and delivered to the employers. Upon reaching their destinations, some women learn that they have been deceived about the nature of the work they will do; most have been lied to about the financial arrangements and conditions of their employment; and all find themselves in coercive and abusive situations and kept in a financial situation that they are stuck in a form of debt bondage from which escape is both difficult and dangerous. Trafficking in human beings (or human trafficking) involves the movement of people (mostly women and children) against their will by means of force for the purpose of sexual or labor exploitation. ... This article or section includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Intimidation is generally used in the meaning of criminal threatening. ... Isolation can refer to: Isolated point in topology (mathematics) Isolation (psychology), psychological phenomenon. ... A threat is a declaration of intention to inflict punishment or harm on another. ... Debt bondage or bonded labor is a means of paying off a familys loans via the labor of family members or heirs. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In music, an arrangement refers either to a rewriting of a piece of existing music with additional new material or to a fleshing-out of a compositional sketch, such as a lead sheet. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... Debt bondage or bonded labor is a means of paying off a familys loans via the labor of family members or heirs. ...

A US Government report[1] published in 2003, estimates that 800,000-900,000 people worldwide are trafficked across borders each year, the majority to Southeast Asia, Japan, Europe and North America. The trafficking of women has also been recorded (in lower numbers) in South Asia and the Middle East and from Latin America into the United States. Since the mid 1990s, with the opening up of the former Soviet Union, the end of the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and the opening up of East and South East Asia, there has been an increase in the trafficking of human beings. Annually, thousands of Russian women end up as prostitutes in China, Japan or South Korea.[2] See the main article on the trafficking of human beings. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... Map of South Asia (see note on Kashmir). ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Geographic East Asia. ... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ... Trafficking in human beings includes recruiting, harbouring, obtaining, and transporting persons by use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjecting them to involuntary acts, such as commercial sexual exploitation (including prostitution) or involuntary labour, i. ...

A recent development should be noted that proponents of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) in the United States, and Sweden's Act On Prohibiting The Purchase Of Sexual Services seek to define all forms of prostitution as exploitive or de facto slavery, and place emphasis on suppressing the demand for sex services, by prosecuting profiteers and customers. While this effort is advanced as a means to protect trafficked children and women, that are variously estimated at 20,000-100,000 annually in the United States, who have issued numerous critiques of these laws as another form of prohibition and stigmatization, that serve mainly to marginalize sex workers.[3] Prostitute rights organizations argue that decriminalization and extension of labor rights to sex workers is more effective in ensuring their economic, mental and medical health than any form of prohibition.[4] Whore redirects here. ... De facto is a Latin expression that means in fact or in practice. It is commonly used as opposed to de jure (meaning by law) when referring to matters of law or governance or technique (such as standards), that are found in the common experience as created or developed without... Slave redirects here. ... The word emphasis, in addition to its main dictionary meaning, may have the following techincal meanings. ... A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ... Image of a woman on the Pioneer plaque sent to outer space. ... A sex worker in Germany A sex worker is a person who earns money by providing sexual services. ... Decriminalization is the reduction or abolition of criminal penalties in relation to certain acts. ... Labor rights or workers rights are a group of legal rights and claimed human rights having to do with labor relations between workers and their employers, usually obtained under labor and employment law. ... See drugs, medication, and pharmacology for substances that are used to treat patients. ...

The term "sex worker" itself is rejected by the advocates of anti-slavery laws, who argue that women cannot choose sex as an economic activity, and claim it is the criminal networks and customer demand that are the driving forces, not economic necessity. A sex worker in Germany A sex worker is a person who earns money by providing sexual services. ...

Sexual slavery in the United States

In 2002, the US Department of State repeated an earlier CIA estimate[5] that each year, about 50,000 women and children are brought against their will to the United States for sexual exploitation.[6]. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said that "Here and abroad, the victims of trafficking toil under inhuman conditions -- in brothels, sweatshops, fields and even in private homes."[7] The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... In several countries, Secretary of State is a senior government position. ... General Colin Luther Powell, United States Army (Ret. ...

Sexual slavery in Africa

Sex slavery is a problem in some parts of Africa. The colonial powers abolished slavery in the nineteenth century, but in areas outside their jurisdiction, such as the Mahdist empire in Sudan, the practice continued to thrive. Nowadays, institutional slavery has been banned worldwide, but there are numerous reports of women sex slaves in areas without an effective government control, such as until recently, Sudan^{[citation needed]}, Liberia^{[citation needed]}, Sierra Leone^{[citation needed]}, northern Uganda^{[citation needed]} and Kongo^{[citation needed]}. In general, the word colonial means of or relating to a colony. In United States history, the term Colonial is used to refer to the period before US independence. ... Muhammad Ahmad ibn as Sayyid Abd Allah (1844 - June 22, 1885) was a Muslim religious leader, a faqir, in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. ... The Empire Kongo The Kongo Kingdom was an African kingdom located in southwest Africa in what are now northern Angola, Cabinda, Republic of the Congo, and the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ...

In Niger[8] and Mauritania^{[citation needed]}, sexual slavery also exists.

In Ghana, Togo, and Benin, a form of religious prostitution known as trokosi or ritual servitude keeps thousands of girls and women in traditional shrines against their will, forcing them to act as "wives of the gods," the shrine priests performing the sexual function in place of the gods. (The Trokosi System, Mark Wisdom, FESLIM--Fetish Slaves Liberation Movement, PO Box 21, Adidome, Ghana, 2001.) This can be compared with the devadasi system in India. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Ritual servitude is practiced in Ghana, Togo, and Benin where traditional religious shrines take young girls as slaves in payment for the services of a traditional religious shrine or as a sort of living sacrifice in an attempt to atone alleged misdeeds of a family member, almost always a male. ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...

Sexual slavery in the Middle East

In the contemporary Middle East, sexual slavery is uncommon. However, transportation and trafficking of these women does exist there. Iran, Israel and Turkey have a significant sex trade-much of it involving women from Eastern Europe and poor areas of Northern India. A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... Map of Eastern Europe Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current national boundaries: Russia (dark orange), other countries of the former USSR (medium orange),members of the Warsaw pact (light orange), and other former Communist regimes not aligned with Moscow (lightest orange). ... The Indo-Gangetic Plain is a rich, fertile and ancient land encompassing most of northern and eastern India, the most populous parts of Pakistan, and virtually all of Bangladesh. ...

Sexual slavery in the past

Sexual slavery in North America

In the mid-19th century in the U.S., there was a white slavery scare which suggested that large numbers of white women were being kidnapped and forced into prostitution. The prevalence of this practice was greatly exaggerated due to xenophobia, and this phenomenon is generally regarded today as having been an example of a moral panic. Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Look up xenophobia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A moral panic is a reaction by a group of people based on the false or exaggerated perception that some cultural behavior or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society. ...

In fact, at that time, the US victims of sexual slavery were overwhelmingly women of African descent, held as slaves, often purchased primarily for sexual exploitation. One related, but unverified story tells of one such girl, purchased as a sexual slave when she was fourteen, is told in "Celia, A Slave," by Melton A. Mclaurin, and such practice is also widely referred to in other literature discussing the era, for instance Roots by Alex Haley. Frederick Douglass, in his autobiography, described the sale of female slaves openly advertised for sexual purposes at slave auctions in the nineteenth century United States. According to John A. Morone's book Hellfire Nation, slaveowners in the American South openly admitted to practicing sexual slavery, while Southern diarist, Mary Chestnut famously wrote that Categories: Literature stubs | 1976 books | American novels | Books starting with S ... Alexander Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer. ... Frederick Douglass, ca. ...

Sexual slavery in East and Southeast Asia during World War II

Main article: Comfort women

"Comfort women" is a euphemism for the up to 200,000 women who served in the Japanese army's brothels during World War II. Historians^{[citation needed]} and researchers into the subject have stated that the majority were from Korea, China and other occupied territories and were recruited by force or deception to serve as sex slaves.^[1][2][3] Comfort women ) or military comfort women ) is a euphemism for the up to 200,000 women who served in the Japanese armys brothels during World War II. Historians and researchers into the subject have stated that the majority were from Korea, China and other occupied territories and were recruited... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Imperial Japanese Army (: 大日本帝國陸軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国陸軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun) was the official ground based armed force of Japan from 1867 to 1945 when it was Imperial Japan. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Korea (Korean: 한국 in South Korea or 조선 in North Korea, see below) is a geographic area, civilization, and former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. ...

Sexual slavery in the Middle East

Main article: Arab slave trade

Slave trade, including trade of sex slaves, occurred fluctuatingly in certain regions in the Middle East up until the twentieth century. These slaves came largely from Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caucasus, and often from parts of Central Asia and Eastern Europe. This article or section needs additional references or sources to improve its verifiability. ... A political map showing national divisions in relation to deonte Shepard Club Of America Free burgers for new members the ecological break (Sub-Saharan Africa in green) A geographical map of Africa, showing the ecological break that defines the sub-Saharan area Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Caucasus Mountains. ... Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible boundaries for the region Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ... Map of Eastern Europe Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current national boundaries: Russia (dark orange), other countries of the former USSR (medium orange),members of the Warsaw pact (light orange), and other former Communist regimes not aligned with Moscow (lightest orange). ...

References

1. ^ Fackler, Martin. "No Apology for Sex Slavery, Japan’s Prime Minister Says", The New York Times, 2007-03-06. Retrieved on 2007-03-23. 
2. ^ "Abe questions sex slave 'coercion'", BBC News, 2007-03-02. Retrieved on 2007-03-23. 
3. ^ "Japan party probes sex slave use", BBC News, 2007-03-08. Retrieved on 2007-03-23. 

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Further reading

• Lal, K. S. Muslim Slave System in Medieval India (1994), chapter XII: "Sex Slavery" [10] ISBN 81-85689-67-9

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See also

• Trafficking in human beings
• Sexism
• Rape
• Child sexual abuse

• Odalisques
• Servile concubinage
• Trafficking of women

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External links

• Coalition against Trafficking in Women Publications on sexual exploitation and violence against women by Professor Donna M. Hughes of Rhode Island University.
• End Child Prostitution and Trafficking / Child Wise
• Foundation against Trafficking in Women (STV)
• Global Alliance against Traffic in Women (GAATW)