Girl Trafficking On the Increase

[Guest guest]

Thanks for this. It heartens me tremendously when people see

compassionate action on issues like this as part of spiritual

practice, and as what pleases Maa.

 

I just saw a report this week talking about how many of the

prostitutes used by soldiers internationally had been trafficked into

slavery, in Bosnia, Philippines, and elsewhere.

 

In a recent post someone opined that the soldiers in Iraq needed

access to prostitutes in order to relieve their stress. Aside from

the unimaginable stress Iraqi women are living under, unarmed and

unprotected, they are human beings, not a means of releasing tension

for the soldiers. And we know that that release is often violent and

abusive in situations where the women are despised, racially as well

as sexually, and there are no consequences for that abuse. Even

without formal slavery, there's every reason to believe that Iraqi

women going with US soldiers are not acting out of personal

preference or motives of sexual liberation, but because the economy

is in ruins, thanks to years of bombing, and survival in their

country, most of all for poor women, is extremely difficult.

 

Om karuna-rasa-sagaryai namaha,

Max

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Max Dashu

Suppressed Histories Archives

Global Women's Studies

http://www.suppressedhistories.net

[Guest guest]

Dear Max:

 

Thank you for taking note. The Iraq connection you mention is yet

another horrific subplot in that shameful mess of a situation.

 

*** It heartens me tremendously when people see compassionate action

on issues like this as part of spiritual practice, and as what

pleases Maa. ***

 

Me too. In fact, think failure to do so indicates that one is kind of

missing the whole point. The truest Shaktas upasaks whom I've had the

honor to meet are relentlessly other-directed, rather than self-

directed.

 

Nice to see sometimes. By the way, I don't think you've been formally

welcomed to the Group -- so ... well, welcome! ;-)

 

DB