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Sexual slavery is a special case of Slavery which includes various different practices: # forced Prostitution # single-owner sexual slavery # ritual slavery, sometimes associated with traditional religious practices # slavery for primarily non-sexual purposes where sex is common or permissible In general, the nature of slavery means that the slave is ''de facto'' available for sex, and ordinary social conventions and legal protections that would otherwise constrain an owner's actions are not effective. Female slaves are at highest risk of sexual abuse and sexual slavery. The term "sex slave" and "consensual sexual slavery" are sometimes used in BDSM to refer to a Consensual agreement between sexual partners (see also Total Power Exchange ). This should not be confused with the meaning of the term as defined in this article, which refers specifically to unwilling slavery. MODERN-DAY SEXUAL SLAVERY Forced prostitution Forced Prostitution is a form of sexual slavery that is often directed at immigrants to Western and Asian countries. Often the "owners" of these people will confiscate passports and/or money in order to make them completely dependent. This practice, also known as ''sex trafficking'' or ''human trafficking,'' is illegal in most countries. Human Trafficking is not the same as people smuggling. A smuggler will facilitate illegal entry into a country for a fee, but on arrival at their destination, the smuggled person is free; the trafficking victim is enslaved. Traffickers use coercive tactics including Deception , Fraud , Intimidation , Isolation , Threat and use of physical force, Debt Bondage or even force-feeding with drugs to control their victims. Women are typically recruited with promises of good, legal jobs in other countries or provinces, or are tricked into a false 'marriage', and, lacking better options at home, agree to migrate. Traffickers arrange the travel and job placements, the women are escorted to their destinations and delivered to the Employer s. Upon reaching their destinations, some women learn that they have been deceived about the nature of the work they will do; most have been lied to about the financial Arrangement s and Condition s of their Employment ; and all find themselves in coercive and abusive situations and kept in a financial situation that they are stuck in a form of Debt Bondage from which escape is both difficult and dangerous. A . A recent development should be noted that proponents of the s organizations argue that Decriminalization and extension of Labor Rights to Sex workers is more effective in ensuring their economic, mental and Medical Health than any form of prohibition. {Link without Title} The term " Sex Worker " itself is rejected by the advocates of anti-slavery laws, who argue that women cannot choose sex as an economic activity, and claim it is the criminal networks and customer demand that are the driving forces, not economic necessity. Sexual slavery in the United States In 2002, the US Colin Powell said that "Here and abroad, the victims of trafficking toil under inhuman conditions -- in brothels, sweatshops, fields and even in private homes." {Link without Title} Sexual slavery in Africa Sex slavery is a problem in some parts of Africa. The Colonial powers abolished slavery in the nineteenth century, but in areas outside their jurisdiction, such as the Mahdist empire in Sudan, the practice continued to thrive. Nowadays, institutional slavery has been banned worldwide, but there are numerous reports of women sex slaves in areas without an effective government control, such as until recently, Sudan , Liberia , Sierra Leone , northern Uganda and Kongo . In , sexual slavery also exists. In Ghana , Togo , and Benin , a form of Religious Prostitution known as Trokosi Or Ritual Servitude keeps thousands of girls and women in traditional shrines against their will, forcing them to act as "wives of the gods," the shrine priests performing the sexual function in place of the gods. (The Trokosi System, Mark Wisdom, FESLIM--Fetish Slaves Liberation Movement, PO Box 21, Adidome, Ghana, 2001.) This can be compared with the Devadasi system in India . Sexual slavery in the Middle East In the contemporary and poor areas of Northern India . SEXUAL SLAVERY IN THE PAST Sexual slavery in North America In the mid-19th century in the U.S. , there was a White Slavery scare which suggested that large numbers of white women were being kidnapped and forced into prostitution. The prevalence of this practice was greatly exaggerated due to Xenophobia , and this phenomenon is generally regarded today as having been an example of a Moral Panic . In fact, at that time, the US victims of sexual slavery were overwhelmingly women of African descent, held as slaves, often purchased primarily for sexual exploitation. One related, but unverified story tells of one such girl, purchased as a sexual slave when she was fourteen, is told in "'' by Alex Haley . Frederick Douglass , in his autobiography, described the sale of female slaves openly advertised for sexual purposes at slave auctions in the nineteenth century United States. According to John A. Morone 's book '' Hellfire Nation '', slaveowners in the American South openly admitted to practicing sexual slavery, while Southern diarist, Mary Chestnut famously wrote that Sexual slavery in East and Southeast Asia during World War II See Also: Comfort women "Comfort women" is a Euphemism for the up to 200,000 women who served in the Japanese Army's brothels during World War II . Historians and researchers into the subject have stated that the majority were from Korea , China and other occupied territories and were recruited by force or deception to serve as sex slaves.123 Sexual slavery in the Middle East See Also: Arab slave trade Slave trade, including trade of sex slaves, occurred fluctuatingly in certain regions in the Middle East up until the twentieth century. These slaves came largely from Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caucasus , and often from parts of Central Asia and Eastern Europe . Saudi Arabia was the last modern country to legally abolish slavery, in 1962. 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