Overview
When in 2002 a public debate flared up in Italy over inflammatory statements published in some newspapers linking prostitution increases to the refusal by overworked Italian women’ to have sex with their partners , it confirmed just how male-dominated Italian society still is. The debates following these assertions focused exclusively on “journalistic” chronicles of women’s sexual habits, ignoring the social factors that were contributing to the rise in prostitution, ignoring these prostitutes as individuals, how and where they came from. This inspired me to research the issue on my own introducing me to sex trafficking. My region “Pugila” was at the time at the forefront of human trafficking so I began my research on many of the holding centers where illegal immigrants and women arrested as prostitutes are held. When most people saw a prostitute (or a best a former prostitute), I saw a girls not allowed to be just girls. Girls who want to look pretty and heartlessly judged for it. A Girl that wanted to fall in love, be saved by an imaginary prince, play dresses and fall at sleep with teddy bears. Girls trap in a web of bureaucracy, backward laws and cheap morality living in fear for their life. Some of those mother are now mother, all of the are in a foreigner country , without an education nor possibility of returning home, hold in a semi jail complex awaiting for a resolution. In respect of their right of being just girls I refused the sensationalist and approach most media sleeked.When looking at this photographs I urge to ignore the former prostitute or the criminal. I ask you to look at the mother, sister or friend, victim of a twisted economy and morality where a girl raped and forced into prostitution is guiltier then the client paying for her service, guiltier than her rapist, guiltier that her pimp and guiltier thane her smuggler As for Italian woman responsibility in the increase of prostitution, surprisingly I could not find cohesive data to support that theory were inconclusive.
What I now however is that the demand for product is based on the market needs. Sex Slavery is a multimillion market, fuel most exclusively by mail sexual desire controlling and abusing woman sexuality and freedom .
This issue is if I recall is as old if not older than the so called “older profession in the world”.
