http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/22/AR2007092201401_pf.html

Human Trafficking Evokes Outrage, Little Evidence

U.S. Estimates Thousands of Victims, But Efforts to Find Them Fall Short

By Jerry Markon

Washington Post Staff Writer

Sunday, September 23, 2007; A01

Outrage was mounting at the 1999 hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building, where congressmen were learning about human trafficking.

A woman from Nepal testified that September that she had been drugged, abducted and forced to work at a brothel in Bombay. A Christian activist recounted tales of women overseas being beaten with electrical cords and raped. A State Department official said Congress must act -- 50,000 slaves were pouring into the United States every year, she said. Furious about the "tidal wave" of victims, Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.) vowed to crack down on so-called modern-day slavery.

The next year, Congress passed a law, triggering a little-noticed worldwide war on human trafficking that began at the end of the Clinton administration and is now a top Bush administration priority. As part of the fight, President Bush has blanketed the nation with 42 Justice Department task forces and spent more than $150 million -- all to find and help the estimated hundreds of thousands of victims of forced prostitution or labor in the United States.

But the government couldn't find them. Not in this country.

The evidence and testimony presented to Congress pointed to a problem overseas. But in the seven years since the law was passed, human trafficking has not become a major domestic issue, according to the government's figures.

The administration has identified 1,362 victims of human trafficking brought into the United States since 2000, nowhere near the 50,000 a year the government had estimated. In addition, 148 federal cases have been brought nationwide, some by the Justice task forces, which are composed of prosecutors, agents from the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and local law enforcement officials in areas thought to be hubs of trafficking.

In the Washington region, there have been about 15 federal cases this decade.

Ronald Weitzer, a criminologist at George Washington University and an expert on sex trafficking, said that trafficking is a hidden crime whose victims often fear coming forward. He said that might account for some of the disparity in the numbers, but only a small amount.

"The discrepancy between the alleged number of victims per year and the number of cases they've been able to make is so huge that it's got to raise major questions," Weitzer said. "It suggests that this problem is being blown way out of proportion."...

Has Ms. Clark-Flory sampled sex with robots? Was robot sex more fulfilling than the sex with multiple partners she detailed earlier?

Maybe robot sex is the way to go for men and women. For women, consistent orgasms. For men, no more widespread false accusations of assault or domestic violence, no paternity fraud, etc.

Ahh, you believe everything you read in the papers. Now I understand your "perspective" a bit better.

"we all know that the great majority of massage parlors featuring Asian women are merely fronts for sex slave rings."

Proof? Or more unsubstantiated overblown feminist rhetoric?

I was sitting next to this women at abar, watching the debates, when it happened. The almost palpable moistness growing between her legs. The slight flush to her cheeks as her pulse quickened...the squirming, writhing release she tried to conceal at the midpoint of the debate, and the breathless afterglow during the remainder of the broadcast.

"I'm a feminist Democrat, and I'm voting for Obama", I said.

"Uhhhh", she moaned, nuzzling my neck, "Take me out of here, I'm so wet".

We got a cab, and went back to the Fairmont where I was staying.

"I'm starved", she muttered, taking off her clothes. We took a shower together, and she moaned Democratic slogans as I took her from behind, "Universal healthcare! Enhanced FMLA benefits!".

My hands glided over her taut, wet body, as she decried the Sarah Palins of the country and their ilk, and once more, I entered her. Eventually collapsing in a heap on the soft, warm bed, I muttered sweet nothings in her ear, as she drifted to sleep, "Democrats will propose a gross-receipts tax system for business income with low marginal tax rates and with credits for US gross receipts taxes paid by suppliers and repeal the majority of the rest of the income tax code for taxing business income".....

Bliss

None.

I lived in NYC for 11 years. You're a foreigner. Fuck off.

NO sex-positive feminism for you, Tracy. Not yours.

Complain, complain, complain.

Thanks, American Woman!

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/09/26/debunk-a-bunk.aspx

"If you're an Obama supporter who gets frustrated that people still believe he's Muslim or won't put his hand on his heart for the Pledge of Allegiance, you should understand the frustration that Palin supporters feel when this slime is taken at face value"

You are wrong. This was an empowerment moment for Ms. Palin.

In charge of her sexuality and not afraid to flaunt it in front of the Patriarchy, which would prefer her veiled and burkha'd.

An historic feminist moment was made in that video. n h

"And let me tell you, every time I take home my paycheck of .80 cents to the man's dollar I think to myself, "Damn, if only women hadn't oppressed men so much that we caused ourselves all this injustice. Damn. Parson Jim is SO right . . .""

Please read my posts in their entirety.

If you believe in the hoary feminist wage gap myth, you'll believe just about anything.

Thank you - everyone needs to make sure the prudish neo-Victorian feminists fail in their mission to destroy free sexual expression in America.

I am not blaming women for porn.

I am congratulating women for porn.

Thank you, sex-positive women of America. The Phyllis Schlaflys and Andrea Dworkins of the world be damned!