In discussing Somaly Mam's book this week, it has been difficult for me to remember that this is not an issue specific only to Cambodia. It is crazy to think that something like sex traffiking could be happening right in Buffalo, NY. It's easy to think that these kinds of things don't happen close to home and that we are always safe, even though this is obviously not true. The images that Somaly Mam depicts in her novel are extremely graphic and hard to read at times but the way that they reach an audience such as our class is incredible.
I decided to look up sex traffiking in New York and see what kind of results would show up. Cases of human sex traffiking that are reported are actually all recorded and kept in a resource center(http://www.polarisproject.org/state-map/new-york). The site that I found includes reports of hotline calls as well as data from cases that reference human sex traffiking. I am currently interning at a domestic violence and sexual assault crisis center where we have a hotline for victims to call, so when I saw that there was something similar for sex traffiking this connection intrigued me. I am really enjoying the novel that we are reading but in some ways it has reinforced my idea that the issue of sex traffiking is not an issue of the United States. It would be nice to see more about this issue in a global perspective and not so focused in remote areas.
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