The corporations and the sex slavery of children

At no other time in the history of mankind have there been countless humans enslaved throughout the world. The population explosion in the past 50 years, the great disparity of rich and poor and the vulnerability of the impoverished youth and women have made human trafficking, the modern name of the age-old slave trade, extremely prolific. It is a practice by which we humans dominate, control, abuse and exploit other human beings for power, pleasure and profit. We must know, think and act to change this, as the 23rd International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition is upon us.

Slavery is one of these abominable violations of human persons that only humans, save one other species, practice. That exception is a species of slave-making ant. The human species, the one with the large brains, some with intelligence, with access to knowledge, compassion, conscience and free will, chooses to reject such endowments and instead imitates the ants. Human traffickers cleverly manipulate, exploit and enslave members of their own species and make them work for them as slaves as do the ants.