Is Sex Trafficking in Asia Ancient or New?: Challenge to the Churches  

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Nadeau, Kathleen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: East Asian Pastoral Review vol. 40 no. 2 (2003), page 128.
Topik: sex traffickng; churches challenge

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This paper argues for the importance of contextualizing and distinguishing post/modern forms of sex work in Asia, from pre/colonial forms. After comparing and contrasting the different forms of prostitution, past and present, in Thailand, China, and the Philippines, the conclusion is drawn that sex tourism today corresponds to Euro-American colonial forms of slavery that dealt in humans as non-human commodities. In other words, prostitution practices today are not coterminous with a pre-colonial Asian past. Rather, ancient Asian communities in all of their diversity and difference, preponderantly, treated their slaves as part of their living and related societal body. Modern policy-makers of international lending bodies and local governments, among others, are only rationalizing, and thereby perpetuating the sex tourism industry by saying that it has always existed and is an innate aspect of select Asian cultures. But, in actuality, the kind of sexuality that can be bought and sold as a commodity on the market, for example, wherein "a man can turn his desire into a thing" is not the same kind of sexuality that was integral to the social reproduction of Asian social formations. This paper's conclusion is twofold: in the first place, a brand new type of sexual slavery has emerged in postmodern times, with a more complicated way of exploiting women. Second,...

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