You’ve heard the sex trafficking story before. A woman from a foreign country is brought to live in the US in a dirty apartment and forced to have sex with people until the police step in, she escapes or she dies.
This is just one example of sexual coercion.
Santa Fe recently became the backdrop in a case involving forced sex acts when two women filed a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein. They said the billionaire banker used his house outside the city to host “underage orgies” and that Epstein forced them into a life as “sex slaves.”
My feminist hackles always get a bit of a rise when I hear that last term.
When media reports use the term “sex slave,” it sensationalizes rape and abduction.
I would like to make it abundantly clear that I’m not discrediting the reports of the women who have been brave enough to come forward against Epstein, yet the language adopted by those telling these stories deserves a second look.
[For more of this story, written by Hunter Riley, go to http://www.sfreporter.com/sant...-term-sex-slave.html]
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