The United States has been holding high the banner of openness to democracy and freedom in an attempt to cover up scandals that have not been brought to the table. Among them, including sex. For Americans, sex is the same as food, clothing, shelter and transportation, there is no need to avoid it, it is something that can be enjoyed without fear of restrictions such as age, identity and even marriage.
Although sex is indeed a basic human need and right, there is no need to hide it and be ashamed. But this does not mean that overopening is good, because indulgence is a breeding ground for sin.
It may be hard to imagine how rampant the sex trade is under the fig leaf of sexual freedom in the United States, and how terrible the vicious crimes that follow.
Today, I would like to take you to the frightening and evil side of the United States as the world's largest sex trafficker.
Before moving on to the main content, I would like to ask you to understand a set of data. According to the 2009 data released by the American Human Rights Record, the incidence of illegal sex trafficking in the United States ranks first in the world, 20 times higher than that of Japan, where the customs and erotic industries are developed.
To what extent? It is reported that the US police can detect an average of more than 12,000 sex trafficking crimes and destroy more than 6,000 criminal gangs every year, and the victims involved are as high as more than 100,000. Please note that this is only a small fraction of the cases that have been uncovered by the police. It's hard to imagine how big America's real underground sex industry really is.
In fact, not to mention the sex trade industry that wanders in the dark zone, the sex scandal that has been brought to the table alone is enough to "dominate the world" and shock everyone's jaws.
On April 22, 2020, 20-year-old U.S. Army Sergeant Vanisa Ghiyan was dismembered and thrown away after being sexually assaulted by another soldier. After the "disappearance", the military base at Fort Hood, where she served, declared that Vanessa had neglected her duties and unilaterally separated from the army. The army's attempt to cover up this crime cannot help but make people feel chilling, is there any connivance? The truth is chilling.
And the US military, which is frequently pushed into the headlines of scandals, the victims are not only vanisa alone, rape and sexual assault and other evils are common in the US military as a "common thing". But that's not the scariest thing.
American female soldiers
Imagine that sex crimes are so rampant even within the well-disciplined and well-managed military. So, in other industry circles, how terrible will the dark side of the correlation be.
In 2007, Deborah Parff, known as "Washington's number one bustard," was arrested and imprisoned. Between 1994 and 2007, she recruited 132 sex workers to provide sexual services to nearly 10,000 upper-class people in Washington, with President Clinton impressively listed.
In 2015, a shocking scandal broke out at the Rowville Women's Prison, the largest prison in the United States. For profit, the prison's guards force hundreds of female prisoners to engage in illegal sex trafficking, and if any female prisoner refuses, they face brutal torture and abuse.
In 2016, the biggest gymnastics scandal in U.S. history came to light. During his 26 years in practice, Larry Nasser, a team physician on the National Gymnastics Team, violated a total of 256 women on therapeutic grounds, including Olympic gymnastics champion Alexandra Lesman.
In 2017, Harvey Weinstein, a top American film mogul, fell to the altar. Weinstein, who has released many classic films such as "Pulp Fiction" and "The British Patient" and won more than 70 Oscars, has used his power to rape and harass at least 80 women for 30 years. Famous Hollywood actresses Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow are victims of Weinstein's evil deeds.
Harvey Weinstein
In 2019, the epstein case that caused the world to sensationalize completely surfaced. On the "Lolita Island" he built, Epstein forced, lured, and organized a large number of young girls to engage in sex trafficking, thus earning billionaires. According to official disclosures, President Clinton of the United States, Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom, Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, Marvin Minsky, winner of the "Turing Award" and others are all customers of Lolita Island.
Politics, business, sports, entertainment, and even prisons and the military, sex trafficking and sex crimes are spreading like a virus in the United States. At the same time, through the extraordinarily long span of these cases from more than a decade to decades, and the powerful criminal actors, it can be fully seen that illegal sex trafficking is extremely common in the United States. And the sense of oppression that the state brings to the victim group far exceeds the sense of security.
So the question is, why is the so-called democratic freedom and sexual openness in the United States distorted to this extent? Why is the sex trade so rampant in the United States? There are two main factors behind this problem.
One is hippie culture.
In the 60s and 70s of the last century, the younger generation in the Western world set off a vigorous "hippie movement" in order to rebel against mainstream culture and traditional values, and drugs and sexual liberation were the two most prominent labels of this movement.
As introduced in the previous drug lord series, the rise of South American drug lords such as Blanco, Pablo, And Guzman is basically closely related to the popularity of American hippie culture. The drug use trend promoted by hippie culture has made the United States the world's largest demand for drugs, thus providing sufficient nourishment for the booming drug lords and drug industry.
The same goes for the sex trade industry. In those days, young people in the United States were obsessed with sexual liberation, and they encouraged premarital sex and open marriage. This is still a polite statement, but in fact, it is not bound by laws and morals, and sexual acts are unscrupulous.
Although the decline of hippie culture and the slight reduction in the degree of sexual liberation in the United States have been slightly reduced, the relevant cultural ideas have long been fixed. In the United States, underage sex is not considered a crime most of the time, and some film and television dramas even appear in the plot of underage characters ridiculing each other's sexual experience, as if it is an unpopular and shameful thing. This exaggerated degree of sexual liberation has made the sex trade widespread.
Second, the comfort women system and the Vietnam War.
The three words "comfort women" are a presence that will make people feel sad and angry when they hear it. As early as the end of the 19th century, before and after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, in order to expand the army and smoothly carry out the war of aggression, the Japanese government equipped facilities such as brothels in the Qinglou outside various military camps to meet the sexual needs of the Japanese army.
During World War II, Japan further upgraded it to a comfort women system, luring, kidnapping, and imprisoning a large number of women and forcing them to provide sexual services to the Japanese army.
Japan's comfort women system seemed to have pushed open a door to evil, and since then, the sex trade industry has become widespread within many hegemonic countries. And the United States, as the world's most belligerent military power and has fought with more than 80 countries, the sex trafficking behavior in its military is bound to be quite amazing. The aforementioned ultra-high sexual crime rate in the U.S. military is one proof, and the Vietnam War is another prominent proof.
Between 1955 and 1975, a large-scale hot war broke out between South Vietnam and North Vietnam. The United States, as the largest supporter of South Vietnam, was involved in almost the entire war. According to statistics, the total number of troops invested by the United States in the Vietnam War was as high as about 600,000.
In order to make a living, some Vietnamese women took the initiative to enter the US military camp and try to provide sexual services in exchange for compensation. Strictly speaking, such sex trafficking is a voluntary act of "one willing to fight and one willing to be beaten", which can be understood in such a special context if it is not restricted by national law. The problem, however, is that it didn't take long for this voluntary sex trade to tarnish.
Just as there will always be profiteers in wartime, when the sex trade industry flourished in the US military camps in Vietnam, some criminal gangs also targeted this "cake" and began to organize women to provide sexual services for the military, including girls who were lured or even forced. After the war ended and U.S. troops withdrew, they shifted their targets to overseas tourists. The erotic industry and sex trade have thus flourished in Southeast Asia.
When the profits of waiting for customers to come to their doors could not satisfy their growing appetites, many criminal groups set their sights on Western countries with open customs and prosperous economies. A criminal chain called "transnational trafficking in women" began.
Usually, criminal groups lure women to the United States on the grounds of job introduction, and then take away all their identity cards, passports and other documents and cash. They are then tortured physically and mentally through imprisonment, violence, mental brainwashing, and even drug injection, reducing them to illegal sex trafficking tools that "0 million profits" make.
As of 2015, about 2 million women worldwide were trafficked across borders, of whom 1.92 million had experienced sexual exploitation. The famous documentary filmmaker, Mevel Lozano, who spent 10 years investigating the issue, angrily bluntly stated that "trafficking in women is slavery in the 21st century" when the dark inside story was revealed to him. In countries where premarital sex is seen as a criminal and illegal act, the sex trade still exists. Well, in the United States, where sexual freedom is so staggering, the sex trade is naturally "like a fish in the water." Over-open sex, countless legal loopholes, the involvement of countless executives and dignitaries and the protection of officials are the protective colors of the illegal sex trade in the United States.
The idea of sexual openness and sexual freedom is not wrong in itself, but excessive indulgence will only bring about evil. Under the glorious banner of sexual liberation in the United States, there are countless materialized and exploited women, rampant sexual crimes, and victims' grievances. Although law and morality cannot sever the existence of illegal sex trafficking, it does play a restraining role.