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Presentation
The Internet and the Global Prostitution Industry
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women - Bangladesh (1998)
  • Donna M. Hughes, Dr., University of Rhode Island
Abstract

The Internet has become the latest place for promoting the global trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and children. This global communication network is being used to promote and engage in the buying and selling of women and children. Agents offer catalogues of mail order brides, with girls as young as 13. Commercial prostitution tours are advertised. Men exchange information on where to find prostitutes and describe how they can be used. After their trips men write reports on how much they paid for women and children and give pornographic descriptions of what they did to them. New technology has enabled an online merger of pornography and prostitution, with videoconferencing bringing live sex shows to the Internet. Rape videos are broadcast over the Internet.

Keywords
  • prostitution,
  • sex industry,
  • Internet,
  • commerce
Publication Date
June, 1998
Citation Information
Donna M. Hughes. "The Internet and the Global Prostitution Industry" The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women - Bangladesh (1998)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/donna_hughes/26/