The Natashas : Inside the New Global Sex Trade
by Victor Malarek
Author Information: An award-winning journalist with more than thirty years of experience in Canadian news. Works with CTV's current affairs show W-FIVE as it's senior reporter. Prior to joining W-FIVE, Malarek was the investigations editor for The Globe and Mail from 2000 to June 2003 and from 1990 to 2000 he was a host of CBC's investigative documentary show The Fifth Estate. In 2001, his investigation into the Toronto Police Union led to a fourth Michener Award and in 1997, he won a Gemini Award as Canada's Top Broadcast Journalist.
Book Description: Award-winning Canadian journalist Malarek reports on the most recent wave in the global sex trade, sparked by the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. According to the U.S. State Department, at least 800,000–900,000 impoverished young women, many of them orphans, from Eastern and Central Europe, are lured with promises of jobs as waitresses, nannies or maids in Western Europe or North America. Instead, they find themselves imprisoned in apartments, massage parlors or brothels in countries ranging from South Korea, Bosnia and Japan to Israel and Germany. With "ruthless efficiency," in the words of one European official, Russian and other organized crime syndicates control this human trade, which offers high profits with little risk of interference thanks to "complacency, complicity, and corruption" on the part of national governments and law enforcement.
One of the more horrific examples Malarek offers involves sex slaves in Bosnia who serviced NATO and UN peacekeepers after the war in 1995. Malarek recounts the affecting first-person stories of numerous victims. The author has excellent research skills and clearly makes his case with the hope of creating enough outrage to stop this traffic in women. However, his hyperbolic, tabloid style of writing is distracting. The facts are horrendous enough to speak for themselves. (Publishers Weekly review)
Recommendation: This book was recommended to me by frequent Orange Ukraine reader and commenter IIU.
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Reader Comments (2)
department can stop this shitThe police take briebs and is to no help.Ukraine launched into the free world ,but they cant fly,yet.
The big difference in Ukraine and basically all OLD RUSSIA countries is caused by INCREDIBLE POVERTY, HISTORIC MALE DOMINATED SOCIETY, TERRIBLE LIVING STANDARDS, EXCESS MALE ALCOHOLISM RESULTING IN LARGE DIFFERENCE OF LIFE SPAN BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE, CENTURIES OF INVOLVEMENT IN WARS RESULTING IN A VERY LARGE EXCESS OF SINGLE FEMALES IN AGES FROM 30 TO 60.
With so many single females and so many alcoholic men has resulted in millions of educated, beautiful, single ladies looking for husbands as the available local men are a total mess and behave accordingly.
Of course WESTERN ingenuity has jumped at this opportunity and has resulted in hundreds of AGENCIES promoting Russian Or Eastern European Wives VIA Tours for men to Eastern Europe. These agencies are mostly legit and result in a large catalogue of women desperately looking for a real husband and the women tired of living alone are anxious and willing to accept any man that shows interest in them especially if they are from North America or Europe.
These agencies have resulted in many thousands of Eastern European Ladies marrying North American and European men and living happily ever after.
Unfortunately there is another side to this story and that is the STUPIDITY side and the CRIMINAL side who take advantage of the willing beautiful ladies who then end up in Prostitution or with a horrible idiot of a husband.
These are the facts and yes I believe the previous writer that she has had 3000 letters of disasters but that is a very small percentage of over 500 agencies each with over 3-5000 signed and photographed ladies which is a total of over 2,500,000 European ladies and these agencies in the last few years are spreading to South America, Asia and Africa.
As all aspects of life in todays world, nothing is perfect and to make rash statement without first making an attempt at investigating and searching for the facts is not a very wise idea and I think the several million very happy Eastern European now married ladies would not agree with your rash statement and I as a very happy western husband of one these wonderful ladies also do not agree with your reasoning.