Before commenting on this topic I want to share with you a real story from one of my patients. I believe it can give you a better understanding of what I will be talking about in my next posts.
“I missed my sister. She came to the US with the intention of getting a job and help our family. I always admired her for the decision and I wanted to follow her steps. When I ran into the man that offered her a job in America, I asked him to do the same for me. I was 13 years old and I was very scared to leave home. I didn’t want to leave my mom, but I had made the decision. They facilitated everything to me and I felt secure and protected. By the time I made it to the border, that man raped me and kept telling me that this was going to be my new life. I worked as a masseur in a specialty shop with many other girls like me. But at the back office there were private rooms for the ‘premier’ service, where we had to fulfill the client’s wishes. Other girls, the pretty ones, were able to choose their clients; the less fortunate, like me, we had to take and serve whoever came into the shop. I had to stay at that place and work to pay for the many expenses of my travel from Mexico, plus all my current expenses for food and shelter. My bill kept growing every day.”
This is not a movie, is a real life story! If you think that slavery was abolished by the end of the XIX century, think again. Today, in 2010, there are more than 27 million people that live, in one way or another, in slavery.- Dr. Ana Nogales
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