Sex slaves

' i met Sahana when she was nineteen years old. she was an illiterate Nepali woman who possesed two valuable qualities: she was young and she was pretty. Her face earned her family the equivalent of fifty pounds when she was sold, aged twelve, to a brothel in India. It also earned her ten customers a day and HIV. She no longer works as a prostitute. This is not because she has been rescued from prostitution, or because she has found a happier livelihood, but beacuse she is going to die. she was ejected from her caged brothel in Mumbai because she had become too thin to attract her clients, and the brothel owner thought she was a bad advertisment for business.
stories like Sahana's have become cliches. but, staggeringly, even cliches like these can still be true.
all over the world women are sold, tricked, forced or lured into prostitution. they are incarcerated in brothels and girls who are a little more than children are compelled to service innumerable clients. they are unable to refuse customers and unable to escape from brothels that are nothing but prisons.
these tales are not myths of figments in the imagination of journalists looking for new angles of a new story. these are ancient horror stories, and they are contemporary ones too, shared by hundreds of thousands of girls and young women.'

Sex Slaves - The Trafficking of Women in Asia.
Louise Brown