I don't vanity google for me, since I don't really want to be found.
The last time the subject of vanity Googling came up on the board I searched for myself. I found out how unfortunate it is that there is only one Internet, not conveniently separated personal and business Internets. The third hit for me was a magazine article in which the author discussed my research on the dangers of alcohol abuse. The fourth hit pulled up several pictures of me, very drunk, at a high school reunion. Cruel juxtaposition is the way of the Google.
That's really unfortunate. And hilarious.
You can run, but you can't always hide.
If you do an image search on the term provocateuse, there is one picture in the first 100 that's not from one of my sites. Huh.
I agree with your reaction, but the problem is that nobody created has a catchy phrase for "prostitution slavery".
I don't think it's ever occured to me, before. It didn't even ping me when I read it here. It was when I read the article itself that I got to thinking about it. I googled it after I made that comment. A wikipedia article used the term
sexual slavery
as a synonym. Since slaves always have been vulnerable to rape, I don't know what I think about that term, yet.
The third hit for me was a magazine article in which the author discussed my research on the dangers of alcohol abuse. The fourth hit pulled up several pictures of me, very drunk, at a high school reunion.
Just look at it as following the maxim "write what you know," Rick.
Since slaves always have been vulnerable to rape, I don't know what I think about that term, yet.
But it's about the primary purpose. Some people are enslaved to be laborers, some to be prostitutes. Even if they all get raped, the rape isn't necessarily the point.
"White slavery" is a horribly offensive term.
Since slaves always have been vulnerable to rape, I don't know what I think about that term, yet.
I think the difference is in the main focus of the slavery. All labour, perhaps including sexual, or primarily sexual? This particular article seemed about general slavery, so the white only points out that it's not like those unfortunate Africans on the cocoa plantations (insert any other non-white not-primarily-sexual slavery here).
But it's about the primary purpose. Some people are enslaved to be laborers, some to be prostitutes. Even if they all get raped, the rape isn't necessarily the point.
For me, the flipside of using "sexual slavery" is that sexual slavery = forced prostitution = rape arranged by an agent you didn't contract with in the first place. I think I might just use the word
slavery.
It all a form of rape--because the person's right to self-determination is taken away by force.
People are more outraged by women getting raped than they are by women getting forced to pick chocolate. (And they used to be even more outraged by white women being raped, hence "white slavery".)
People are more outraged by women getting raped than they are by women getting forced to pick chocolate. (And they used to be even more outraged by white women being raped, hence "white slavery".)
Right, which is exactly what's so offensive about it.
