Half The Sky Analysis
Half the Sky Never judge a book by its cover. Half the Sky by Krsitof and WuDumn assured me of that, to say the lease. Just hearing a small view of someone else’s life, does not tell the story of what is happening at night or behind closed doors. The story behind Half the Sky goes to tell those stories of what is happening at night or behind closed to doors to young ladies across the world. Gaining a better knowledge of sex trafficking, how other countries handled sex slavery, and a better perspective on the insight of how these young females feel. Before reading parts of Krisitof and WuDumn Half the Sky I had a small history of knowing what sex slavery was. I knew that young females, usually in developing countries would get kidnap or fooled
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Things like project WHO and Durbar Mahlia Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) were put in place in India to try to prevent STD from spreading and inform those about the harm that is taking place (Kristof and WuDumn, 2010, pp. 27-28). DMSC became so big they started letting people take tours of their brothels to prove there was no underage sex slavery going on, just prostitution going on. However, most of DMSC brothels were all a big cover up (Ibid, p. 29). That is exactly what happened to Geeta, she was under the impression that the aunt was a part of DMSC, and she was in good hands. This however, was not the case what so ever (Kristof and WuDumn, 2010, pp. 29). India was not the only country trying to prevent, or control sex trafficking. According to Kristof and WuDumn the Netherlands and Sweden also had some sex slavery issues. In Sweden, they took on the big-stick approach. The big-stick approach where they criminalized any purchase of sexual service, in hopes to prevent underage prostitution. About a decade later after the approach was in effect, Sweden really started becoming harsher towards reducing trafficking. According to Kristof and Wudumn “The number of prostitutes in Sweden dropped by 41 percent in the first five years, according to one count, and the price of sex dropped, too…” Thus, this made trafficking girls into Sweden no longer a desire. Making the big
Things like project WHO and Durbar Mahlia Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) were put in place in India to try to prevent STD from spreading and inform those about the harm that is taking place (Kristof and WuDumn, 2010, pp. 27-28). DMSC became so big they started letting people take tours of their brothels to prove there was no underage sex slavery going on, just prostitution going on. However, most of DMSC brothels were all a big cover up (Ibid, p. 29). That is exactly what happened to Geeta, she was under the impression that the aunt was a part of DMSC, and she was in good hands. This however, was not the case what so ever (Kristof and WuDumn, 2010, pp. 29). India was not the only country trying to prevent, or control sex trafficking. According to Kristof and WuDumn the Netherlands and Sweden also had some sex slavery issues. In Sweden, they took on the big-stick approach. The big-stick approach where they criminalized any purchase of sexual service, in hopes to prevent underage prostitution. About a decade later after the approach was in effect, Sweden really started becoming harsher towards reducing trafficking. According to Kristof and Wudumn “The number of prostitutes in Sweden dropped by 41 percent in the first five years, according to one count, and the price of sex dropped, too…” Thus, this made trafficking girls into Sweden no longer a desire. Making the big