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To: TobagoJack who wrote (132162)	3/16/2017 9:33:09 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217591

TJ.. I can't change the world.. All I can do is attempt to understand it. I abhor prostitution.. As a man, I find nothing desirable, or stimulating, about treating sex as a business. I wouldn't enjoy it, let alone be able to "perform" knowing the girl cared nothing for me, but merely wanted my money. But I can't stop young women (or men) from engaging in it because it's how they decide to make their living. Many of them are addicted to drugs, and need the money to support their habit. Some of them are fleeing bad situations at home.. Some of them may have been sold off into it by their parents, in exchange for paying off a family debt.. Some of them are single mothers, who have children to feed and no marketable skills. So they sell themselves for sex.. They don't call it the world's oldest profession for nothing.. And when 5 Billion+ people are living on less than $2/day, who am I, or YOU, to judge? As for apologizing.. Japan has done this over and over again.. But for the Koreans, spurred on by their concept of "Minjok", or ethnic nationalism, seem to prefer continuing the controversy, and attempting to rid themselves of any shame for having been complicit in recruiting their women into prostitution on behalf of the Japanese (or anyone else, for that matter). Even today, it's believed that 20% of all Korean girls, age 15-29, have engaged in some form of prostitution.. So it's nothing new, nor has it halted.. If anything, it has grown.. But you need to look at China, and even HK and Macau, where prostitution is legal.. Whereas, in China and S. Korea it is Illegal, yet still thrives. China has upwards of 100,000 N. Korea women working as prostitutes, many of whom it is asserted are actually sex slaves.. There are women from Mongolia, Vietnam, Philippines, even Japan, working as prostitutes on the mainland. One would think that with such numbers of women being trafficked to China for the sex trade, that the country was on the verge of war (making the comparison of 200k Koreans engaged in WWII sex trade fo the Japanese army).. But I don't see the Chinese govt apologizing for bringing in foreign women to service their young men.. Now do you? When I see interrogation reports like the one I presented to you, showing that these women chose to engage in this activity (while some claimed deception, no rational person could believe they didn't know what they were being hired for), and that they were treated well for the most part, and that the soldiers even attempted to protect them when they were in combat against the advancing Allies, it doesn't sound like sex slavery to me.. Yes.. prostitution is disgusting and demeaning.. But if someone is being paid for it, and actually has the freedom (which many current prostitutes lack, to pay off their debt and be permitted to leave for home, you can't really say that it was kidnapping.. ibtimes.com en.wikipedia.org Hawk