A must read.

Sex should be beautiful, fun, and between equals. This is none of that.

NY Times Excerpt (link at bottom):

He threatened to beat her and to kill her children if she did not comply. And so she stood near a roundabout recently, her hair in a greasy ponytail, charging $40 for intercourse, $27 for oral sex.

“For me, life is finished,” she said later that evening, tears running down her face. “I will never forget that I have done this.”

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The police recently rescued a 19-year-old Romanian woman from traffickers who had tattooed on her wrist a bar code and the amount she still owed them: more than $2,500.

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It is widely accepted here for business meetings to end in dinner and a visit to a brothel….

Please read the rest, here. Thanks to the NY Times for making this an international, viral story. Awareness and outrage is the first step toward justice and change.

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“An hour and a half orgy? Frankly I’d say that $500 euros for six women in bed with me…You can’t say no to that.”

When offered a choice to get out, of course I said yes.

“I am disgusted by my body…I am not a prostitute.” Heartbreaking.