I have decided to change my book because I don’t know but Eat Pray Love was a really boring book. It did not appeal to me as it does for other people. I am currently enrolled to a World Regional Geography class and we are currently reading Half the Sky. This is a good book to read because it talks about the issues of women around the world. There are many issues that are currently happening in less developed countries throughout the world. They are suffering from poverty, lack of government and other issues that are causing them a negative effect. But there are also major issues that are not only affecting these less developed countries, but as the rest of the world. These issues are sex work, prostitution and human trafficking. Each of these issues all have the same negative affect on women and girls around the world. Though some women decide to do prostitution as a choice of living, many are do not. They are forced into this line of work through human trafficking and this is causing major concern for women and girls all over the world. In the book that I am reading right now, we learn about different women and girls who live in less developed countries and how they are treated as a woman living there. In the book, they discuss the major difference on how men and women are treated in those countries. Less developed countries do not have much respect for women, as they are seen as weak and uneducated creatures. They are only seen as sex objects, which is why so many are forced into sex work. There are three ways that they are forced into this type of work. They are either kidnapped, sold by a family member into trafficking, or forced into working in brothels. As I continue reading, they go into details about these brothels and interviewed many girls who have once or currently worked in those brothels. Brothels are like hotels where visitors come to stay for a while and sometimes are about to get some entertainment by girls, if they pay for it. The women who were interviewed about their experience all had the same story, they were tricked into being able to go outside of their village to find better work and then sold by a trafficker to brothels. There the women were sold as prostitutes and forced to have sex with the customers. Bad things happened when they tried to resist or escape, like brutal beatings or death threats. That’s why so many women are so afraid to leave. There are many support groups who are trying to figure out ways to stop this force prostitution but sometimes it is hard to do it with no help from the government. Since these are less developed countries, the government and the law has no effect on the people living there. There is so much poverty that the owners of brothels can bribe law enforcers to keep their business alive. I really enjoy reading this book because it is giving me an insight of what is happening in the world around me. Some of the stories that I have read in interviews are really sad and sometimes very shocking. I am glad that some of these women and girls find a happy ending for themselves. It can be hard being a rape victim so hearing that their lives turned around in a positive way.
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