Because human trafficking is illegal, it is hard to get actual statistics, but most safe estimations have the number at around 20,000 per year.
Originally Posted by Biomech
I'd like to know where you get your numbers from, since the numbers I see on Wikipedia are under that for total human trafficking (not just sex trafficking) in the US per year.
As I said, it is a bigger problem in some areas than others, where it may not be a problem at all. Here in Buffalo, LE just raided 6-7 AMPs and charged them all with human trafficking. So it is rampant here.
Just because they are charged with human trafficking doesn't mean they are actually guilty of it. It's certainly possible that they are, but women smuggled into the country often are going to keep quiet or be given immunity/a temporary visa to stay here in exchange for their testimony.
I also find it curious that you somehow know that "a large number of the girls
are fully aware of what they are getting into...". Not sure how you could know such a thing, much less say it with such certainty.
I say that because I've hobbied extensively in the Dallas/Ft Worth, and metro areas in California (LA and SF), which happen to be probably 3 out of the top 5 metro areas in the US for AMPs and AAMPs. Many of the girls I've met through the hobby started out in AMPs or AAMPs and were recruited by friends, changed groups they worked with because they didn't like management, went fully independent, started their own management group and recruited girls, or quit the business to go do something unrelated to the hobby. Doesn't exactly sound like they are the victims many portray them as to me.
And even if they did know and somehow thought they were going to make a better life for their families by giving HJs, the reality is something different entirely. The whole point of human trafficking is to NOT have to pay the girls very much. Otherwise, why not just use locals? Why drag girls halfway across the globe?
The argument that these women (the ones who know what they are getting into) are having to do horrible things for money is ridiculous on its face. You should stop hobbying entirely if you have the moral conviction that "people shouldn't have to do degrading, menial service for a paycheck". That being said, you should probably also stop eating food that you don't grow yourself, stop staying at hotels, do your own gardening, etc, etc. Just about anyone that you ask if they'd rather have a cushy job and earn the same amount of money will say 'yes'. But if you ask a Chinese peasant girl if she wants to make $100 an hour, which probably a week's work is probably 6 months' wages, to work in an AMP or if she wants to make 3 dollars an hour to assemble iPhones until her wrists fall off (which is considered a
great job in China), there's going to be a substantial number of girls that choose the former. Is that economic exploitation? Sure. But so is bringing in workers to pick our vegetables, work in meat packing plants, clean toilets in hotels, etc.
Then there's the Korean girls who make up the vast majority of AMP and AAMP girls, who would rather provide than work at a convenience store the rest of their lives, or worse, get married and be a slave to their husband.
So the two problems we have here have nothing to do with a 'shadowy conspiracy to sell women into sex slavery' but good old fashioned economic inequality and sexism. Once you solve those problems, I can assure you that the cost of the hobby is going to skyrocket.
The reason, by the way, that they bring girls halfway around the world is supply and demand. You don't have enough asian girls in Buffalo willing to work in an AMP there, and asian girls elsewhere in the US aren't willing to go to Buffalo. Never been there myself...I hear it's a lovely city. But even here in the SF Bay area, girls come over from Korea or where ever because a) men want to meet beautiful asian women that will do dirty things to them and b) those beautiful asian women know other beautiful asian women willing to do dirty things to them.
Hey, if you know for certain that the woman servicing you has made a free choice to do so, then more power to everyone involved, but I can not in good conscience support any establishment where there is even a chance that that might not be the case.
As I said before, I'm certainly not in denial that sex slavery happens. There's obviously an amount of sex slavery run through organized crime groups, and it's sick and wrong. To be perfectly frank, I avoid most AMP and lower priced establishments both because I'm not sure if the org is on the up and up, and also because generally the service is much better at well-reviewed organizations with well-reviewed girls. Usually I know what level of appearance and what services I'm going to get at a particular price, even if it's higher. I don't want to have to haggle, etc. On the other hand, I think the term 'free choice' is hard to define. To many Asian girls that provide, I think working for 3 months, or a few years, or however long they do it is a path to wealth that they don't have at home.
I, for one, would be very interested in a true study into the real percentage of girls who are here against their will vs girls who are here to build up a nest egg. Unfortunately, I don't have the language skills or the money to do the investigation myself.