A half-century ago - being kidnapped for the white slave trade was sum of all fears for young women - perhaps merely a fatasy. Now it is being seduced into sexual slavery off the streets of the west. What on earth are we coming too?
[Image: Babylonian Marriage Market (1875) - Edwin Long. Long was one of my favourite "Pre-Raphelite" artists. When exhibited in 1875, it caused a sensation. Of course what was not in dispute was the veracity of such a thing as it has been well described in Herodotus Histories. Here is an critical look at the economics of such a practice.]
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