Bring ‘em on
February 27, 2007
There’s been lots and lots of ink over the last couple of years about human trafficking and the sexual enslavement of female immigrants. It’s a hot-button issue for the anti-freedom anti-prostitution camp, because it gives them something to point at while they insist that all prostitutes are victims, regardless of their circumstances.
But there’s just one little detail that they always neglect to mention about imported prostitutes: chances are, what they are doing is considered normal and acceptable in their home countries. Indeed, their own societies may very well consider immigration to the west in exchange for indentured prostitution to be a very good deal.
Consider the between-the-lines implications of this scholarly article (hat tip: HG), written to expose the vagaries of prostitution but inadvertently exposing the truth instead:
A survey compiled in the social and economic chaos of the 1990s revealed that Soviet women ranked prostitution eighth in a list of what they felt to be the top twenty most common employment positions in the USSR.[2] In the same year, a separate survey indicated that 60 per cent of high school girls in Moscow admitted that they would exchange sex for hard currency.
As the conservatives have stated so emphatically over the last year or so in the public debate regarding Hispanic immigration, this country depends on a steady flow of newcomers to fuel the economy and drive birth rates. But what they have overlooked is that opportunities for those first hitting the ground here are limited, and there is not an inexhaustible supply of convenience stores.
And now, my unanswered question is… where are all the Russian CL whores? With all of the Russian immigrants in this city, and with so many Russian and eastern European women admitting that prostitution is an acceptable career choice, it stands to reason that more of them should be working the circuit here.
February 28, 2007 at 5:07 am
HA – good point, but I think what happens is that these women get here and realize that they can truly be anyone/anything that they want to be and ditch the sex-for-money trade. Those who are not tightly controlled by handlers, that is.
Other than that, I don’t see too many Russian women in the trade here. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad, some Russian women i’ve met are mighty cold. However, I do think that Russian/Eastern Euro women are god damn hot, I could probably put up with a cold shoulder now and again.
February 28, 2007 at 7:32 pm
The strip clubs and brothels of New York City are filled with apathetic, bored, blonde Russian girls. The Sopranos actually does a pretty good job of depicting them (except they do not accurately depict their true numbers). Russian chicks are EVERYWHERE in the NYC metro area.
February 28, 2007 at 10:01 pm
I see the explosion of sex workers in Russia as a sign of the destruction of their economy and societal bonds. It’s not a good sign for Russia.
Just as Hip Hop culture has a downside here also.
While I haven’t found a lot of Eastern European woman in the Seattle escort scene. Three of my favorites were Russian and were not “cold” at all, but very passionate.