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1998

Gender and Sexuality

Commerce

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The Internet And The Global Prostitution Industry, Donna M. Hughes Dr. May 1998

The Internet And The Global Prostitution Industry, Donna M. Hughes Dr.

Donna M. Hughes

The Internet has become the latest place for promoting the global trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and children. This global communication network is being used to promote and engage in the buying and selling of women and children. Agents offer catalogues of mail order brides, with girls as young as 13. Commercial prostitution tours are advertised. Men exchange information on where to find prostitutes and describe how they can be used. After their trips men write reports on how much they paid for women and children and give pornographic descriptions of what they did to them. New technology has …