Though I firmly believe that Somaly's efforts are incredibly important in aiding those who were victims of sex trafficing, I feel that an approach presented by Bales excerpt "What Can be Done" would be equally benifitial. While Somaly mostly works to heal the effects of sex slavery, which is definitely incredibly neccessary, Bales propses that we attack the problem at its core. Slavery usually manifests in places of extreme poverty and population explosions. Povery leads to violence and extreme measures to find the money that in these situations are hard to obtain,while large populations lead to a lack of jobs; a perfect storm for illegal activies such as prostitution. In order to completely eliminate the new slavery we have to attack these underlying problem by helping to buld a better economy and effectively teaching women about birth control methids.
I also think another central issue that needs to be addressed in order to perminately end sexual slavery is these society's additues towards women. If even wives are treated as objects, being beaten and objectified for sexual pleasure, why would men treat prostitutes, who are thought of as less human that respectable wives, any different. Educationg men, as Somaly did in her book, is essencial to changing these beliefs.
Though it is important to support victims and money should be continually be given to charites such as AFSIP and the Somaly Mam Foundation, in order to really have an impact on the situation in Cambodia, to prevent further suffering from happening, we need to address these central issues.
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