Expository Assessment News Paper
Wednesday 21 of April 2010

KOs Traffic of Prostitution In Asia.
1A by: Karen Cruz

Prostitution is one of the oldest job in history. Maybe people might asked there selves, why are people into those jobs? I believe that women who is into corruption are into those jobs and are okay with that and make excuses why they have that type of jobs. Many may say that they need the money urgently or they couldn’t find a job. All of that in my opinion is BS!
Not so long ago I had a different thought about it when I found out that in the Philippines they had traffic of prostitutions. These were women and children that didn’t make the choice to sell their body.
150,000 Filipina women have been trafficked into prostitution in Japan. (Press Statement, Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association, "Open sale of little girls at Tanbaza brothel.
150 Filipinas were sold into prostitution to night club operators in African countries, particularly Nigeria. The women were bought for $5,000 each by international syndicates. Four Filipinas were rescued by the Philippine Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria after they sought help from officials. (Bureau of Immigration, Lira S. Dalagin, "150 Pinays sold as sex slaves in Africa," Manila Chronicle
Four Chinese women suspected of being prostitutes were arrested by the Manila Police in a karaoke bar. The club manager however, was not arrested. One of the arresting officers is accused of raping one of the apprehended women. These arrests brought the number to 23 Chinese women found to be working as prostitutes in Manila clubs alone.
75% of the estimated 500 prostitutes in the "Area," a ghetto known for child prostitution in Angeles City are children. (Susan Pineda, of Pro-Women Action, "Scourge of Child Prostitution," Sol. F. Juvida, InterPress Service, 12 October 1997) The increase in the exploitation of prostituted children is attributed to the fear of HIV/AIDS. Some people believe children have less risk of having the disease. The sex trade in chidlren is so well established, because of the influx of sex tourists and the existence of sex tours catering to Japanese, European and other Caucasian tourists.
A Philippine Adventure Tour costs $1,645, including round trip airfare, hotel accommodations and guided tours to the bars where men purchase sex from prostitutes for as little as US $24. Tour owner and operator Allan Gaynor promises that customers "never sleep alone on this tour" and recommends that the customer have sex with a different girl every day "two if you can handle it." (Demonstrators at Los Angeles International Airport Target Sex Tour to the Philippines."
Sharon, a 13-year-old girl was kidnapped and sold as a virgin for US$30. In a brothel, she was raped by 8 to 15 men every night, even when she had her menstrual period or was running a fever, and by the time she escaped with a customer's help in February 1997, she had 'serviced' more than 1,500 men. Former Congressman Manolet Lavides, promised 30 dollars, for sexual favors, to four 15 year old girls - enough for a new pair of shoes one of the girls said she needed. These are many of the cases of traffic of prostitution.
The policy and laws that the Philippines have started to stop prostitution are tourism program of the government which aims to project the Philippines as a major tourist destination has increased the number of prostituted women. The Philippines is the first Asian country to pass an anti-child abuse law.
British police experts gave a training course in Manila for Filipino police officers on how to deal with child and female victims of abuse. Twenty-one participants spent four weeks learning the latest methods of investigating cases of child abuse and domestic violence, dealing with child victims, and searching and forensic techniques.