Human Trafficking

     Looking through all of the different blogs on the wiki I came across Alyssa Sasaki's blog about Human Trafficking.  Her blog about human trafficking reminded me of my final project in a writing course I took this past summer.  My paper and presentation was on how to create awareness of human trafficking in my community.  Going back to Alyssa's blog, I absolutely agree with her perspective of human trafficking because of the horrifying information that I learned from my research during the summer.  The victims of human trafficking have an inexplicably oppressive and cruel lifestyle.  For example, during my research, I came across a personal experience of a young Cambodian girl named Srey Pov, who was involved with sexual slavery at the age of six.  However, she was fortunately saved by Somaly Mam, an anti-trafficking activist.  On a positive note, there are people in the world who are making a difference by spreading awareness and taking action by saving young girls from vile brothel houses.
     Regarding Alyssa's question of the movie Taken:  "Not once in the movie was a male a victim of this horrendous crime and doing. Is this a correct or incorrect portrayal of sex trafficking?"  I agree with Alyssa that in the movie a male was never portrayed as a victim, but I am not sure about my answer to her question.  On the other hand, I do believe that media glamorizes the idea of females as the victim of sex trafficking.  Although males are not primarily used as sex slaves, males can be trafficked to other countries to do forced labor.  So, human trafficking is the trading of human beings for not only the sole purpose of prostitution, but also forced labor, and other forms of exploitation.   In this case, the media uses the movie Taken to portray women as the victim rather than the entire human race despite gender.