From: NY Times
CONTRABAND WOMEN — A special report.; Traffickers’ New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women
By MICHAEL SPECTERJAN. 11, 1998
Israel is a fairly typical destination. Prostitution is not illegal here, although brothels are, and with 250,000 foreign male workers — most of whom are single or here without their wives — the demand is great. Police officials estimate that there are 25,000 paid sexual transactions every day. Brothels are ubiquitous.
None of the women seem to realize the risks they run until it is too late. Once they cross the border their passports will be confiscated, their freedoms curtailed and what little money they have taken from them at once. …
In some countries, Israel among them, there is not even a specific law against the sale of human beings.
Mr. Platzer said that although certainly ”tens of thousands” of women were sold into prostitution each year….
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