Blogger #6

I watched a TED talk titled, 'The Fight Against Sex Slavery' and the speaker was Sunitha Krishan. Sunitha Krishan is an anti-human trafficking activist and she has dedicated her life to helping women and children in places like India, escape the darkness that is being sold for sex labor. She began her presentation by talking about three little boys who she rescued recently and how all of those boys who were no more than 4 years old, were sold into sex slavery because their parents were broke and desperate. Near the end of her presentation she tells us that all three of those boys had died already from HIV. In her speech she talked about her own experience being gang raped at 15 years old and how she never felt like a victim, all she ever felt and still felt 35 years later, was anger and that has motivated her to help other people in the same sort of situation. She gives a very powerful and fully uncensored presentation about what the women who are brought up as sex slaves, what these women end up going through, like the STD's as well as thinking this is what they deserve or are meant for in this world.

I could use this TED talk in my presentation because it gives a lot of insight into what people are thinking when forced to work for sex and even what kind of parent sells their child to this kind of business. These acts are out of true desperation and those who did not have a choice should not be left to feel like they deserve to be in that mess. Krishan also speaks of how people in their everyday world can help. It starts by the way one treats a person who has been through a hell like that, we should not make them feel judged or ashamed because it is not their fault. These women need to feel acceptance, into the community and they need to be given opportunities to turn that pain from being a sex slave into power, power of being free.