education time!!!
poledancer83
Narnia
Exploitation- the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.
To my fellow dancers stop using this word. You obviously dont know what it means. If you auditioned and agreed to work at a club then you arent exploited regardless of how you are treated. You are working. You know what happens long before you start working and if you dont then you can leave at any time. Being exploited means you have lost control due to abuse or drugs etc that you feel as if you cant leave. we are so much better then what we are represented by (we meaning dancers). If you want to be a banker then be a banker but if you want to spread your shit on stage friday night then do it but dont call it being exploited. Off my rant now just tired of hearing that word lol
To my fellow dancers stop using this word. You obviously dont know what it means. If you auditioned and agreed to work at a club then you arent exploited regardless of how you are treated. You are working. You know what happens long before you start working and if you dont then you can leave at any time. Being exploited means you have lost control due to abuse or drugs etc that you feel as if you cant leave. we are so much better then what we are represented by (we meaning dancers). If you want to be a banker then be a banker but if you want to spread your shit on stage friday night then do it but dont call it being exploited. Off my rant now just tired of hearing that word lol
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Tired of only being used for money. :)
What Life Means to Me
by Jack London
This is just an example of the mentality of america, a country built on the genocide of natives and slavery of Africans and of course capitalism, the exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few...
"As a brain merchant I was a success. Society opened its portals to me. I entered right in on the parlor floor, and my disillusionment proceeded rapidly. I sat down to dinner with the masters of society, and with the wives and daughters of the masters of society. The women were gowned beautifully, I admit; but to my naive surprise I discovered that they were of the same clay as all the rest of the women I had known down below in the cellar. “The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady were sisters under their skins”—and gowns.
It was not this, however, so much as their materialism, that shocked me. It is true, these beautifully gowned, beautiful women prattled sweet little ideals and dear little moralities; but in spite of their prattle the dominant key of the life they lived was materialistic. And they were so sentimentally selfish ! They assisted in all kinds of sweet little charities, and informed one of the fact, while all the time the food they ate and the beautiful clothes they wore were bought out of dividends stained with the blood of child labor, and sweated labor, and of prostitution itself. When I mentioned such facts, expecting in my innocence that these sisters of Judy O'Grady would at once strip off their blood-dyed silks and jewels, they became excited and angry, and read me preachments about the lack of thrift, the drink, and the innate depravity that caused all the misery in society's cellar. When I mentioned that I couldn't quite see that it was the lack of thrift, the intemperance, and the depravity of a half-starved child of six that made it work twelve hours every night in a Southern cotton mill, these sisters of Judy O'Grady attacked my private life and called me an “agitator”—as though that, forsooth, settled the argument."
I agree with anyone who complains about themselves being exploited shouldn't be dancing.
My impression is, that "human trafficking" should involve travel. IMO, the term should refer to exploitation of a particular form, in which travel (possibly forced travel; possibly coerced; possibly just encouraged on false pretenses) to a distant place, lack of access to reasonable escape, and generally being moved around against your will, are part of the methods by which the exploitation is accomplished.
If, to the contrary, you're free to walk to the drugstore, or you're still in the town where you went to high school, then you probably are not being "trafficked". You may be exploited (although, please see original post in thread, that term is often misused too) and you may experience being pimped or controlled or ... I dunno, spanked or something. But to have means of travel and the right to change location in order to avoid any bad situation, is to imply that you are not trafficked.
So I think. Maybe I'm wrong? I just hear about "home grown trafficking" and I don't get it! What about, a girl who grew up in Orlando (f.e., making this up), got a meth habit, was walking the main prostitute stroll there (I can't remember the name, Orange Blossom? is that it?) and some "helpful" fellow from the local strip club drives by. "Hey, you can work out of our club. C'mon and head on over, the bus will get you there any day of the week. The usual rules are ..." and he tells her all about how much she has to tip-out to the bartender and the DJ, whether or not she can get away with blowjobs in the back room, whether or not she's required to blow him and his manager in order to get away with blowjobs in the back room. So, she replies, "No way man, I'm a freelance meth-head! You can't traffick me!" I don't think she's using the verb "to traffick" correctly.
Not that a meth-head's grammar ever really needs to be carefully parsed in the first place, but, that's a different issue. :)
Human trafficking.
Pimps don't take their hoes to other destinations for monetary purposes? Ha. Ok.
They figure they have a better chance of imposing their view of morality on the population if they fool us into thinking that sex workers are always exploited by men. In some cases they are, and that should be illegal and aggressively prosecuted. But, lets not paint every act as trafficking and exploitation.