White Lights
June 27th, 2006
Last night, we went out on the streets to one of the brothel areas. This particular area is in the middle of a neighborhood full of immigrants from all over the world. There are families eating together, kids playing, people gathering in the courtyard to catch up about the day. On some of the side streets in this neighborhood, there is a strip of white lights. Every white light over a door identifies it as a brothel open for business. Inside each brothel is a “madam” who runs the brothel and a woman who is sold for sex. Above these brothels are apartments and beside them are businesses. Prostitution is legal in Athens, meaning that the systems are not set up to act against this injustice. Trafficking women into prostitution is illegal, but it is difficult to differentiate between a woman who is illegally brought from another country as a slave and a woman who has had minimal choices of survival. And does it matter?
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