Summer is coming to an end and it feels both nice and troublesome in different ways. Stability is good and boring. Everyone returns to their everyday lives and summer becomes but a memory. Summer is high season for ice cream, travel and sex tourism. Sex tourism is a rapidly expanding industry that grows more expansive… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Prostitution
Seminariet om Skuggbarn – den okända sexhandeln med barn i Sverige
En viktig bok har nått bokhandlarna. Caroline Engvalls “Skuggbarn” sätter ljus på något som är svårt att förstå, och som är så osynligt att vi knappt vågar tro att det finns. “Skuggbarn – den okända sexhandeln med barn i Sverige”, beskriver hur svenska män köper sex av ungdomar. Förra veckan besökte RealStars seminariet om Skuggbarn,… Read more »
What do you intend to do, Beatrice Ask?
”What does the Minister of Justice intend to do to ensure that all police districts actively and efficiently work on the issues of human trafficking for sexual purposes and the act of paying for sexual services?” This is how Hanna Bergstedt (S) concludes her open letter to Beatrice Ask. The letter inquires as to why… Read more »
I Zürich säljs kvinnor som snabbmat
Bild The Mirror. Prostitution är som vilken affärsverksamhet som helst och kan inte förbjudas. Det är en av anledningarna till att det i statlig regi har öppnat en drive-through-bordell i Zürich. Genom att installera larmknappar i båsen har man har även tagit fasta på de prostituerade kvinnornas särskilda utsatthet för misshandel och övergrepp (!). Samtidigt… Read more »
A large scale brothel
If you get off the subway at St. Pauli station in Hamburg and walk towards Reeperbahn after dark, you will be on a journey. A journey which shows how Germany has become the country you travel to in order to buy sex. It’s not a pleasant walk for an outsider. Wherever you turn there are… Read more »
Gå eller sluta slå? våld och ansvar.
Not so long ago photographs were published revealing to the world how TV cook and cookbook author Nigella Lawson’s husband Charles Saatchi took hold of the chef by her throat at a public restaurant. The incident was captured by the paparazzi and has created a frenzy of mixed opinions in social media. We ask ourselves,… Read more »
Stop Female Death in Advertising
Stop Female Death In Advertising is Lisa Hågeby’s master’s dissertation at Beckman’s University of Design. The project shows how women in commercials are made submissive on a grand scale. To illustrate the phenomenon, she picked the most extreme form of submission, images that allude to a dead woman. From ReaStars’ perspective, it is not hard… Read more »
EU is launching a platform against human trading
How can organizations in society get together and become a driving force in eradicating trafficking? A small step was taken May 31 in Brussels as non-profit organizations from EU countries gathered for the first time in the new forum to lay the foundation for what will help to make a change. The originators, Cecilia Malmström… Read more »
There is a second hell waiting outside the brothel
Because of the escape of the three American kidnapping victims, Katrin Kielos writes in Aftonbladet of the millions of women and children who are still being held as sex slaves. The ones with no voice. ”They often ask the women why they don’t escape. Run away. Break free. Could the door really have been shut… Read more »