SOCI 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Substance Abuse, Sex Selection, Sex Tourism
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Trouble/unable to escape sex trade because of debt for food, shelter, drugs, etc. These debts are always being added to and the amounts aren"t recorded properly so the amounts can change unfairly and without notice to women who have the debts. Ex. in the philippines, parents sell daughters (both knowingly and unknowingly) to sex trade for money. They are often told that the girl is going to get a good job in the city (they may or may not believe this and may choose to sell her anyway) Canada is a destination country and a transit country. Women and children trafficked from asia normally go to vancouver, and those from eastern europe often head to toronto. Brazil, phillipines, republics of the former soviet union, dominican. China has a higher rate of prostitution than the usa. Thousands of women from korea and vietnam are trafficked to. Historically, prostitution has mainly occurred in areas where men outnumber women (military and logging/resource towns)
