Where is NOW Now?
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on May 03 2006 at 1:34 pm | Filed under: Feature Article
NOW, the National Organization for Women, is once again so busy attacking the Bush 
administration over abortion rights for pampered and protected American women that it simply has no time to deal with or acknowledge real acts of inhumanity committed against women. My reading today began by touching upon the grotesquely exploitative sex trafficking in Europe, especially Germany:
German Chancellor Andrea Merkel visits the
United States today. She is currently facing increasing opposition from NGOs, government leaders, human-rights advocates, and faith-based groups to
Germany’s open acceptance of brothels and sex huts. The issue has been brought to a point by well-publicized efforts to expand this industry when
Germany hosts the World Cup this June. Estimates are that over 40,000 women, many from the Eastern bloc and
Russia, will be trafficked into the German cities hosting soccer games in order to meet the demand promised, and manufactured, by the sex industry. Even now, before the games, authorities claim that as much as 80 percent of those women who will work as prostitutes are foreign, and have been coerced or beguiled into thinking they were coming to
Germany for jobs in restaurants and clubs.
What’s really awful about this type of sex trafficking is that the language of feminism has been used to justify this exploitation. We’re told that sex workers are empowered and that they’re simply selling a valuable commodity that they’re fortunate enough to possess in a market that’s willing to buy.
