Third Short Quiz – Sex Trafficking INTO the U.S.

[johnkarls]

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NB: The FOURTH Short Quiz will focus on Sex Trafficking WITHIN the U.S. – what parents and grandparents need to do to protect their adolescent loved ones from being trafficked.

1. How much does Harvard Prof. Siddharth Kara’s research show is the average retail price of a sex slave in the United States?

2. Can you order your sex slave for home delivery yet on Amazon.com?

3. Can you also use your slave for other purposes such as house cleaning, mowing the lawn, etc.?

4. If you own a winery or a farm, can you use your slaves as workers in addition to using them for sex?

5. Where do the slaves come from?

6. Does Prof. Kara attribute the low retail price of a slave to an incredibly high number of human beings that have been displaced by wars and other conflicts who are desperate to escape the life of a refugee and willing to believe the promises of the traffickers?

7. Is inability to speak English one of the factors that prevent slaves from escaping?

8. Is the lack of any money another factor that prevents slaves from escaping? [NB: Why would you pay your slaves anything instead of just feeding them enough to keep them alive?]

9. Does Prof. Kara say that brutality for disobedience is another factor that prevents slaves from escaping? For example, are disobedient slaves often murdered, such as by slashing their throats, in front of other slaves as a warning?

10. What is the average life expectancy of a sex slave according to Prof. Kara?

11. Does Prof. Kara estimate that of the $5,250 average retail price of a slave in North America, the trafficker’s profit is $2,400?

12. Does Prof. Kara’s research show that the weighted average retail price of a sex act in North America is only $27.50?

13. Does Prof. Kara explain that the incredibly-large supply of sex slaves drives down the average retail price of a sex act which, in turn, unleashes an incredibly large demand for the low-priced sex?

14. Does Prof. Kara’s research show that the average annual revenue per sex slave in North America is $90,648 of which, after deducting costs of only $32,633, the net profit is $58,015?

15. Is there any other business in the world that offers an annual profit of more than 10 times the initial investment with no other up-front costs such as workforce training?

16. BTW, does Prof. Kara’s figure of $90,648 per sex slave per year and his figure of $27.50 per sex act mean that the average sex slave performs 3,296 sex acts per year? Or, in other words, more than 9 sex acts/day assuming the sex slave works all 365 days/year?

17. Does Prof. Kara’s research show that the average number of sex acts/day for the actual number of days that a slave is able to work per year is more than 20?

18. Is it any surprise that the average life expectancy of a sex slave means death by age 35?

19. Are sex slaves frequently sold by one brothel (sex club, massage parlor, etc.) to another brothel et al.? Do these resales figure into Prof. Kara’s calculation of the average retail price of a sex slave in North America as $5,250?

20. Do frequent resales make sense in an industry where the attractiveness of the inventory plummets so quickly so that higher-class brothels et al. are quickly re-selling inventory to lower-class brothels et al.?

21. Why is the price so low if the profitability is so obscene (pun intended!!!)???

22. Of the 7 factors that Prof. Kara lists for why there is no real legal risk to America’s slave traffickers and slave owners, are the 3 that jump out (1) corruption of officials, (2) feeble enforcement and minimal prosecution, and (3) insufficient protection for victims whose testimony is needed?

23. BTW is, presumably, the cost of bribing officials and the cost of intimidating victims against testifying already factored into Prof. Kara’s $32,633 annual cost/slave in Q-13, leaving the $58,015 annual profit/slave intact?

24. Does this imply that only jail time is a deterrent? And imply that the jail time has to be significant? And that the jail time has to be for the top criminals rather than their underlings who are probably slaves themselves and can be replaced at minimal cost?

25. How many slaves are there according to Prof. Kara?

26. Is the number of slaves currently far more than the total number of slaves brought to America during the 350 years that slavery was legal?

27. Does the United Nations say that international trafficking in slaves by organized crime rivals in size organized crime’s illegal-drugs business and its illegal-arms business?