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Do Female Pimps Do It Better?

21st_century_Viking Wrote: Sep 18, 2009 3:12 PM

Reminds me of the Amistad account in the 1830s. An uprising aboard the slave ship "Amistad" resulted in the captive Africans seizing control of the ship. The leader of the Africans, a man named Cinque, managed to have the case go before the US Supreme Court to decide whether they were free men or slaves. The Court decided the Africans were in fact free and were returned to Africa. Nice, huh?

But the story doesn't end there. What the movie doesn't tell you is that Cinque immediately got involved in the slave trade upon his return to Africa where he became very wealthy selling his fellow blacks into slavery.

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Do Female Pimps Do It Better?

There’s been a quiet change going on in the sex slavery business. According to the United Nations, there are now more female traffickers than male. The number of women involved as pimps in sex trafficking is disproportionate to the number of female perpetrators in other criminal activity. The United Nations’ report, Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, agrees with previous estimates from the U.S. State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Office (TIP) that sex trafficking accounts for the majority — nearly 80 percent — of human trafficking, with the victims overwhelmingly women and girls.