vsttew's review against another edition
4.0
Cuanta información respecto al tema, cuánto ha crecido y que poco sabemos sobre los abusos. Me encantó el final, da sugerencias de cómo podemos ayudar.
unamujerhabitada's review against another edition
5.0
Un libro que todos deberíamos leer, contiene mucha información sobre la trata de personas y otros temas dependientes, así como fuentes informativas para adentrarse mas en el tema. Sus conclusiones y recomendaciones para combatir este gravísimo problema deberían ser aplicadas por todos los seres humanos.
brussel777sprouts777's review against another edition
4.0
There is much evil in the world, and human trafficking & forced prostitution is prominent throughout many countries across the world. I am grateful that Lydia Cacho has worked to bring many aspects of these atrocities to light. I hope we can work with governments everywhere to eliminate this.
irissantos's review against another edition
5.0
Do Japão ao Cambodja, da China ao Porto Rico, do México à Rússia, o tráfico sexual de mulheres e crianças é uma prática banal e globalizada que ocorre sob os nossos narizes, destrói famílias, mentalidades, vidas parcamente vividas, levanta barreiras de preconceito e afastamento.
Lydia Cacho, jornalista mexicana e feminista activa na luta pelos direitos das mulheres embarcou numa viagem pelo turismo sexual à escala global; recolhe informação e dados estatísticos sobre o lucro de um negócio que vive da apatia e crueldade imposta sobre mulheres e crianças retiradas de países pobres com o propósito de abrir os olhos aos leitores sobre uma realidade muito mais comum do que se pensava. Também ela, enquanto mulher, sofreu ameaça de morte várias vezes, assim como também se colocou na linha de risco para conseguir abordar as mulheres que viviam para lá da barreira invisível e quase intransponível do mercado negro.
Numa linguagem fluida e transparente, Cacho divide as informações por país, pelas experiências das mulheres, advogados, instituições não-governamentais e activistas que entrevistou e por colegas de jornalismo que lhe concederam informações até antes não divulgadas.
Sendo também mulher, Lydia sentiu-se afectada pelos relatos de carácter obscuro, cruel e tétrico da realidade de mulheres que tinham a sua mentalidade formatada e moldada ao formato imposto por traficantes e proxenetas a que pertenciam enquanto objectos de prestação de serviços sexuais como meros receptáculos de frustrações e expectativas da virilidade do homem enquanto ser masculino numa sociedade que vive de afirmações e aparências. A sua clientela consiste de pais de família, políticos, celebridades, líderes religiosos, atletas e CEOs de grandes corporações industriais.
Considero esta obra sucinta e muito bem construída como um must-have a qualquer pessoa que queira estudar a complexidade do mercado negro dos dias de hoje, assim como qualquer leitor interessado nos direitos humanos e feminismo. Este livro leva-nos a entender a rede de inúmeros braços que se estende a todos os cantos do planeta de onde retira mulheres e crianças e as coloca em bordéis ilegais mantidos sob o disfarce de karaoke bars ou casinos onde esse mesmo lucro da exploração é lavado. A complexidade deste assunto deve ser abordada com cuidado e lentamente desmantelada, pois não só as mulheres são exploradas e têm toda a sua vida, sexualidade e esperança de ter uma vida feliz destruídas como também este negócio é a fundação sobre a qual economias de países inteiros encontram estabilidade e autossuficiência financeiras.
Lydia Cacho, jornalista mexicana e feminista activa na luta pelos direitos das mulheres embarcou numa viagem pelo turismo sexual à escala global; recolhe informação e dados estatísticos sobre o lucro de um negócio que vive da apatia e crueldade imposta sobre mulheres e crianças retiradas de países pobres com o propósito de abrir os olhos aos leitores sobre uma realidade muito mais comum do que se pensava. Também ela, enquanto mulher, sofreu ameaça de morte várias vezes, assim como também se colocou na linha de risco para conseguir abordar as mulheres que viviam para lá da barreira invisível e quase intransponível do mercado negro.
Numa linguagem fluida e transparente, Cacho divide as informações por país, pelas experiências das mulheres, advogados, instituições não-governamentais e activistas que entrevistou e por colegas de jornalismo que lhe concederam informações até antes não divulgadas.
Sendo também mulher, Lydia sentiu-se afectada pelos relatos de carácter obscuro, cruel e tétrico da realidade de mulheres que tinham a sua mentalidade formatada e moldada ao formato imposto por traficantes e proxenetas a que pertenciam enquanto objectos de prestação de serviços sexuais como meros receptáculos de frustrações e expectativas da virilidade do homem enquanto ser masculino numa sociedade que vive de afirmações e aparências. A sua clientela consiste de pais de família, políticos, celebridades, líderes religiosos, atletas e CEOs de grandes corporações industriais.
Considero esta obra sucinta e muito bem construída como um must-have a qualquer pessoa que queira estudar a complexidade do mercado negro dos dias de hoje, assim como qualquer leitor interessado nos direitos humanos e feminismo. Este livro leva-nos a entender a rede de inúmeros braços que se estende a todos os cantos do planeta de onde retira mulheres e crianças e as coloca em bordéis ilegais mantidos sob o disfarce de karaoke bars ou casinos onde esse mesmo lucro da exploração é lavado. A complexidade deste assunto deve ser abordada com cuidado e lentamente desmantelada, pois não só as mulheres são exploradas e têm toda a sua vida, sexualidade e esperança de ter uma vida feliz destruídas como também este negócio é a fundação sobre a qual economias de países inteiros encontram estabilidade e autossuficiência financeiras.
roxyc's review against another edition
4.0
A harrowing and courageous work of investigative journalism. Shedding light on an issue that most are unwilling to even think about. What shocked me most was, not the corruption or the link to organised crime, but the clients. An industry like this only exists because there are SO many men willing to exploit them and use them. If there were no clients the business would not thrive. That means that there are clients willing to pay without thought to the circumstances of the girls (many of which are still children). It seems in some ways like it has become an almost legal and socially acceptable form of paedophilia. I must admit I was shocked that there were actually some women running a few of these places and making money off child pornography and paedophilia.
This book takes the reader on a journey around the world, showing us the trafficking system in its many guises, and giving a glimpse into the lives of these women. While there are a percentage that choose this profession, most do not. Men that claim that the women are consenting so that makes it okay are just trying to justify their behaviour and remove guilt. I like that the author goes into various ways that countries have considered reducing this problem. None of which seem like the right solution. But what is the right answer? In a world where pornography is readily accessible and more hardcore than ever, in a world where boys are raised in a society where this kind of treatment of women is so mainstream that it has become “normal” and “acceptable”, how can we teach our men-to-be that this is wrong? Men are supposed to be the protectors, but they are almost always the perpetrators of the evils of the world. We must teach our boys to respect and protect.
As it stated in the latter part of this book “A new masculine revolution is necessary. We need a new generation of men, not warriors, not armed, not threatening divine punishment, not violent, but men who possess a strong sense of progress and justice….. Male power must re-invent itself before the mafia and global society, which turns a blind eye, succeeds in convincing girls that becoming a sex slave is the only way they will be able to study, eat, buy goods and services, before a new generation comes to believe that buying slaves is a sign of progress and modernity.”
A hard hitting and thorough work of bravery.
This book takes the reader on a journey around the world, showing us the trafficking system in its many guises, and giving a glimpse into the lives of these women. While there are a percentage that choose this profession, most do not. Men that claim that the women are consenting so that makes it okay are just trying to justify their behaviour and remove guilt. I like that the author goes into various ways that countries have considered reducing this problem. None of which seem like the right solution. But what is the right answer? In a world where pornography is readily accessible and more hardcore than ever, in a world where boys are raised in a society where this kind of treatment of women is so mainstream that it has become “normal” and “acceptable”, how can we teach our men-to-be that this is wrong? Men are supposed to be the protectors, but they are almost always the perpetrators of the evils of the world. We must teach our boys to respect and protect.
As it stated in the latter part of this book “A new masculine revolution is necessary. We need a new generation of men, not warriors, not armed, not threatening divine punishment, not violent, but men who possess a strong sense of progress and justice….. Male power must re-invent itself before the mafia and global society, which turns a blind eye, succeeds in convincing girls that becoming a sex slave is the only way they will be able to study, eat, buy goods and services, before a new generation comes to believe that buying slaves is a sign of progress and modernity.”
A hard hitting and thorough work of bravery.
charliesiringo's review against another edition
4.0
First of all it is rather telling that the majority of reviews are by women, which suggests that men still don't have much interest in this topic. I also read this book as a response to 'pimp' by Iceberg Slim. I have been trying to read books in pairs, coming at things from opposite or different angles
Really opened my eyes but also sadly confirmed a lot of things. The formatting was weird, a combination of ebook and it being translated. It also started off as a travel writing but shifted into just essays, which was a bit strange. I feel the authors points were really great but were explained overly confusingly
Really opened my eyes but also sadly confirmed a lot of things. The formatting was weird, a combination of ebook and it being translated. It also started off as a travel writing but shifted into just essays, which was a bit strange. I feel the authors points were really great but were explained overly confusingly
beejai's review against another edition
4.0
Some books are such that we do not love to read them so much as we need to read them. This is one of those books. Here Lydia Cacho presents some sobering truths about the global sex slave trade with a specific emphasis on how our governments and many corporations are complicit in this modern day tragedy. She begins like David Batstone does in Not For Sale by moving place to place weaving heart rending stories with regional statistics and trends. In six chapters she covers Turkey, Israel, Japan, Cambodia, Burma, and then Argentina/Mexico pulling you in with heart breaking personal stories and then knocking you out by revealing how this story is repeated tens if not hundreds of thousands of times and how the local and international governments are complicit in allowing (or even aiding) its perpetuation over and over again. She then turns in the next portion of the book to show how specific groups or organizations serve to continue this crime. She talks about the clients, the pimps, and the mafia's involvement but also the banks and the militaries (with specific focus on American, Japanese, and Thai)
What I loved in this book most is how she would often highlight specific groups that are on the ground fighting the herculean effort against this human tragedy. What I did not like is that throughout the book there was very little written of how we, the reader, can help where we are at right now. She does have a portion of her appendix cover some practical things but even then most are quite common sense. I appreciate this appendix but I would have loved to see the same things weaved into her narrative as well.
Also, there are no footnotes and there is no bibliography. While most of the individual stories and interviews are her own and I understand the desire to protect those people's privacy, I would have loved to be able to do further research into many of the numbers and statistics she also uses or to read deeper into some of the geopolitical problems she highlights.
What I loved in this book most is how she would often highlight specific groups that are on the ground fighting the herculean effort against this human tragedy. What I did not like is that throughout the book there was very little written of how we, the reader, can help where we are at right now. She does have a portion of her appendix cover some practical things but even then most are quite common sense. I appreciate this appendix but I would have loved to see the same things weaved into her narrative as well.
Also, there are no footnotes and there is no bibliography. While most of the individual stories and interviews are her own and I understand the desire to protect those people's privacy, I would have loved to be able to do further research into many of the numbers and statistics she also uses or to read deeper into some of the geopolitical problems she highlights.
auspea's review against another edition
2.0
Powerful narrative that describes the tragic world of trans-national exploitation of women and children. But I do think Ms. Cacho is a bit of a sexist who blames men for the subjugation and victimization of women throughout history. She is preoccupied with the notion that women are the primary victims of slavery through prostitution, and gives little recognition to the fact that men are also victimized. Many millions more men are victims of coercion and enticement into forced labor, debt bondage, narcos and as child soldiers. It is not my position that women who are coerced into prostitution or slavery aren't victims but this must be kept in context. She rails against "The Patriarchy" without recognizing the fact men are much more likely to be enslaved than women. Coercive sexual exploitation is a heinous crime, but it also receives a disproportionate amount of attention by international institutions and NGOs. Just sayin.
booknerdy's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
5.0