Women’s groups yesterday said an increasing number of advertisements are appearing online to lure young women into the sex industry by promising them lucrative salaries.
With the arrival of the summer vacation, many online ads have begun to appear that are seeking to lure young women into prostitution by promising them high salaries and easy work with several days off.
Some of the ads say that workers will receive payment on the day of the transaction, which may be appealing to those who are in a hurry to earn money.
“Search results related to the sex industry have doubled from 10 million to 20 million from 2008 to 2009,” said Lee Li-fen (李麗芬), Taiwan’s secretary-general of the International Campaign to End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism, adding that most appeared in online chat rooms that have become vital tool in the recruitment of new workers to the sex industry.
Lee said this showed that there is a lack of regulations protecting young women from falling victim to unscrupulous prostitution rings.
Garden of Hope Foundation executive director Chi Hui-jung (紀惠容) said that every year about 200 young women enter the sex industry in Taiwan, with more than 100,000 girls between the ages of 15 and 18 having to find employment because of financial pressure.
Despite the fact that many women fall into traps set in online chat rooms, the government has not made any efforts to curb such practices, activists say.
The online chat rooms do not place limits on age or membership status, which means that brothel operators and pimps can target anyone who visits the chat rooms, Chi said.
The women’s groups called on the government to curb the practice by implementing online certification systems that require the user to enter his or her real name and age.
In the event that young women are tricked into becoming sex workers, it would then be possible to track down the person behind the crime, they said.
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