White Slavery, according to Wikipedia:
By the beginning of the
20th century, the term also came to mean the abduction of white girls into forced
prostitution, and after about 1905 it was used for this definition almost exclusively. "White slavery" was the focus of a major
moral panic in the United States at the end of the
Progressive Era. Although
sexual slavery did and still does occur, "white slavery" is usually used to refer to this moral panic, where there was a perception that this form of abuse was a danger to every young woman.
In the United States,
Chinese immigrants were particularly stereotyped and demonized as white slavers and were referred to as the
yellow peril during this time. As an example of this in American culture, the musical comedy
Thoroughly Modern Millie features a Chinese-run prostitution ring. The gangster movie
Prime Cut has mid-West white slaves sold like cattle. In Christian Europe, on the other hand, the predominant stereotype linked the term to
Arab white slave traders and
Ottoman harems. The theme of a European woman kidnapped to be sold into a Muslim harem also reappears frequently in contemporary American erotic literature.
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As unimaginable as it seems, slavery and bondage still persist in the early 21st century. Millions of people around the world still suffer in silence in slave-like situations of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation from which they cannot free themselves. Trafficking in persons is one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time.”- U.S. State Department Trafficking in Persons Report, June 2003
Simply put, on this blog these are women who are currently - or perhaps if you are too late - recently, for sale. If you want one, leave a comment. I might get back to you.