July 8, Comments are closed. Please share her thoughtful reply to your circles. Instead, there are new techniques to sell women for sex. There arenew technologies that facilitate trafficking for prostitution. Almost all women want to get out ofprostitution which is the business of sexual exploitation.
How about investigating the cutting edge laws that criminalize buying aperson for sex, as in Sweden. This has resulted in the lowest rateof trafficking in Europe. Sex buyers, still largely sociallyinvisible, are becoming legally targeted by communities that recognizewhat some of us see: buying sex is a predatory activity predicatedon inequality between men and women.
Take the Long Hill Road exit off I in eastern Connecticut and curl south toward the waterfront city of Groton and youll find each of the places that briefly employed Maureen Brainard-Barnes. And the Chesters chicken counter, where she made the potato wedges.
And the shopping center with the Groton Cinema 6, where she picked up discarded snacks from the carpet in exchange for free admission and a bag of popcorn. In , Ms. Brainard-Barnes was a year-old single mother who had difficulty holding down a steady job. She never could afford her own place, staying with her sister for long stretches and occasionally with a boyfriend.
Modeling, she thought, could lead to a music career. As soon as she enrolled on a site called ModelMayhem. She wasnt thrown by seeing this. What did surprise her was the money. Within a few months, Ms. She posted ads on Craigslist and worked out of a hotel room in Midtown for short stretches and then returned home to care for her daughter. After so many years of depending on others, she could leave her responsibilities behind and become another person for a while and she could earn enough money to fulfill those same responsibilities.
