The Natashas: The New Global Sex Trade [Hardcover]

Victor Malarek (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Viking Canada (2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670043125
• ISBN-13: 978-0670043125
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,732,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A shocking story of the slavery of our time. A must read., October 26, 2003

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Henry (Quebec) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Natashas: The New Global Sex Trade (Hardcover)

This is a book that will make you shocked, it will make you angry, and it will make you cry. But above all, it will make visible to you one of the greatest evils of our time, and hopefully give you the will to make a difference.

The Natashas is a very painful book to read. At the same time it is a book all of us MUST read. Mr. Malarek, one of our best investigative journalists gives a complete picture of the horror of sex trafficking, in particular, the recently booming sex trade of Eastern European women & children. To be precise in all respects, it is a book about the slavery of our time, brutal, murderous, heartbreaking enslavement of women and children within the very border of the western world.

With first hand information through personal interviews and field investigations, Mr. Malarek illustrates and analyses the nature of this human misery. But above all, he gives us a picture of the horrors these girls suffer: ”Recruited” by deception, coercion, or abduction, 200,000 girls each year from Eastern Europe are sold like cattle abroad to serve as sex slaves. They are tortured and threatened into submission. They are forced to take 10-30 clients a day. Many of them commit suicide, or become mentally sick, still more contract sexually transmitted diseases, have forced abortions, or babies who become orphans. Rarely do they escape their fate because they are invisible to us. Their owners make sure they blend into the local sex business environment, because they don’t speak the local languages, because policemen and politicians don’t care enough, because men who buy sex don’t care (or know) the crime they are paying to propagate, and most of all, because the public is not aware of it and many of us despise them.

This book is not about prostitution. It is about slavery. I thought I knew the subject until I read it, and I am glad I did.

This crime must be stopped. We must all learn about the nature of this problem and pursue to engage ourselves, our government, our law enforcement agencies, and our social sector to deal with it. And if you read this book, I promise that you will feel the same.

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read. It will made you mad-and sad......, January 29, 2004

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Suzan Robertson "Suzan" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Natashas: The New Global Sex Trade (Hardcover)

I read a short interview with Mr. Malarek in a Montreal newspaper, and had to buy this book.

It is wonderfully written, and it made me mad, sad, and frustrated at the plight of the poor women in Eastern Europe and other locations that have to endure the horror that their lives have become. I can't help but think about them every day now, and I pray that this book will help get the word out and something will be done while governments look the other way.

I commend Mr. Malarek for his work. I plan to pass this book around to everyone I know. A must read.

5.0 out of 5 stars Invisible Terror?, November 28, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Natashas: The New Global Sex Trade (Hardcover)

When we struggle to come to terms with the unimaginable horror of the Holocaust, we often hear the question, "How could the Germans just sit by and let this happen?" It seems that history is repeating itself as the abduction, confinement, rape, torture, and murder of the millions of women and children forced to work in the sex trade continues unchecked. This is not a foreign problem. It is fueled by our own lust, corruption, apathy, and fear and then tragically blamed on its innocent victims.