Decadent ‘Western Community of Values’ – Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery

The commercial sexual exploitation of American children has become ‘Big Business’ in the USA and one of the worst crimes, writes DR. RUDOLF HANSEL.

Actually, I thought I was sufficiently informed by the books of my friend, Manfred Paulus, about the shameful excesses of human trafficking and sex slavery. But his meritorious lifelong research is mainly related to Germany and Europe.

An article by the American constitutional attorney, John W. Whitehead, in Global Research of 24 April 2019 – ‘The Essence of Evil: Sex with Children Has Become Big Business in America’ – shows that the sex trade – especially the purchase and sale of young girls – has become ‘Big Business’ in America.

This buying and selling has become the fastest growing organized crime business and the second most important good after drugs and weapons. This is America’s dirty little secret. This decadent ‘Western Value Society’ will one day perish like the decadent Roman Empire.

‘Battlefield America: The War against the American People’

I recommend to every reader of these lines – especially parents and educators – to read the shocking state report of American society here in order to form their own opinion. In the following, I quote from the report. Whitehead portrays a frighteningly decadent nation.

Already, in 2015, he published a book entitled ‘Battlefield America:the War on the American People.’ It is estimated that there are 100,000 to 150,000 under-aged child sex workers in the U.S.

The average age of those being trafficked is 13. But the average means there are children younger than 13. That means 8-, 9-, 10-year-old. Every year, the girls being bought and sold gets younger and younger. Every two minutes, a child is exploited in the sex industry.

According to USA Today, adults purchase children for sex at least 2.5 million times a year in the United States. They are ordinary people from all walks of life, including men in socially respected professions such as doctors and pastors. On average, a child might be raped by 6.000 men during a five-year period of servitude. It’s happening everywhere, right under our nose, in suburbs, cities and towns across the nation.

For those Trafficked, it’s a Nightmare from Beginning to the End

These girls aren’t volunteering to be sex slaves. Some of these children are forcefully abducted or lured by force. Many are runaways or throw-aways, others are sold to the system by relatives and acquaintances. In most cases, they have no choice.

Social media makes it all too easy for pimps to find girls. They look on MySpace, Facebook, and other social networks. They, and their assistants, cruise malls, high schools and middle schools. They pick them up at bus stops. Foster homes and youth shelters have also become prime targets for traffickers. It is a ‘trading of flesh.’

‘The Essence of Evil: Sex with Children has Become Big Business in America’

For the victims of human trafficking, it’s a nightmare from beginning to the end. A living nightmare of endless rape, forced drugging, degradation, threats, disease, pregnancies, abortions, miscarriages, torture, pain, and always the constant fear of being killed.

They were frequently beaten to keep them off-balance and obedient. Every night they would have to meet a certain quota. Sometimes, they were videotaped while being forced to have sex with adults or one another. In a so-called ‘damage group,’ the clients can hit them or do anything they want to.

The Result of a Decadent Western Civilization

‘The Essence of Evil’ is what Whitehead calls his article. In the text, he asks the question: “Where did this appetite for young girls come from?” And he answers:

“Look around you. Young girls have been sexualized for years now in music videos, on billboards, in television ads, and in clothing stores. Marketers have created a demand for young flesh and a ready supply of over-sexualized children.”

Whitehead then quotes from a report in the U.S. magazine, Newsweek. There, a certain Jessica Bennett writes:

“Latex, corsets and stripper heels, once the fashion of porn stars, have made their way into middle and high school. (…) It’s the ‘pornification of a generation’, (…) sex, if not porn, has invaded our lives.”

Whitehead says:

“Culture is grooming these young people to be preyed upon by sexual predators. And then we wonder why our young women are being preyed on, trafficked and abused?”

Because of the growing demand for sexual slavery and an endless supply of girls and women eligible for abduction, this problem will not go away in the near future, Whitehead thinks.

So What Can You Do?

Whitehead answers the self-imposed question, ‘So what can you do?’ with a series of detailed practical recommendations. I quote some that I have translated:

“Educate yourselves and your children about this growing menace in our communities. Stop feeding the monster: Sex trafficking is part of a larger continuum in America that runs the gamut from homelessness, poverty, and self-esteem issues to sexualized television, the glorification of a pimp/ho culture—what is often referred to as the pornification of America—and a billion dollar sex industry built on the back of pornography, music, entertainment, etc.

“This epidemic is largely one of our own making, especially in a corporate age where the value placed on human life takes a backseat to profit. It is estimated that the porn industry brings in more money than Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Yahoo. Call on your city councils, elected officials and police departments to make the battle against sex trafficking a top priority, more so even than the so-called war on terror and drugs and the militarization of law enforcement. (…)”

That so many women and children continue to be victimized, brutalized and treated like human cargo is due to three things: one, a consumer demand that is increasingly lucrative for everyone involved—except the victims; two, a level of corruption so invasive on both a local and international scale that there is little hope of working through established channels for change; and three, an eerie silence from individuals who fail to speak out against such atrocities.

But the truth is that we are all guilty of contributing to this human suffering. The traffickers are guilty. The consumers are guilty. The corrupt law enforcement officials are guilty. The women’s groups who do nothing are guilty. The foreign peacekeepers and aid-workers who contribute to the demand for sex slaves are guilty.

Most of all, every individual who does not raise a hue and cry over the atrocities being committed against women and children in almost every nation around the globe—including the United States—is guilty.

[Courtesy: Global Research, 2019]

Dr. Rudolf Hänsel is a psychologist and educationalist.