Thanks for your post, open mike. You make some good points. On the subject with which I opened this thread (and I am here including all of the countries in which it is a problem), I find myself feeling pretty uncomfortable calling sex slaves "prostitutes". Prostitute suggests to me some degree of willing participation, and also some amount of financial remuneration. The women (and men, as freda has pointed out) and children who are the subject of this thread do not have either one... choice or financial remuneration. They are slaves in every sense of the word, being held captive against their will and being forced to engage in sex acts with strangers solely for the profit of their "owners".