Comments on: Turkmens for sale, bids starting at $2200

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:42:33 +0000

Really? Blame the victim rather than the society? 2200 dollars is roughly the average annual income of a Turkman. Glamour you say? Like food hot bathes electricity and Internet access? An American from a small town is lured to the “Big City” to alleviate boredom and they may well do things that they Morally they wouldn’t normally consider or they may think that the moral consequence is the price of admission.
The girls willing to do this are attracted to the idea of a way out of there current circumstance. They actually feel that slavery or a loveless marriage is better than the unstable uncertain future that is promised them by their current lot in life.
Don’t scoff at their hope, instead condemn the society in which hope comes at such a great price.

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:56:35 +0000

@Turgai Sangar, Yes, they are doing it at home. Having worked in the gas plants, we were provided with so called party girls at the camps whenever we wanted. The women did not care if we were married, thinking we might leave our wives and marry them. Unfortunately some of us were stupid enough to fall into the trap and now we're stuck with them and even more miserable then we were when married to our north american women. Men should realize that the reason the women do whatever the man wants sexually, is so that he'll marry her and she won't have to do it anymore.

By: Turgai Sangar

Turgai Sangar — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:03:51 +0000

Well, indeed nothing new except maybe that Turkmenistan is not mentioned very often in reports about the phenomenon in part because the regime indeed covered it up and kept it taboo for a long time.

Sad indeed yet personally, I don’t buy into the classical tearjerker of poor innocent women being lured in the trade that we get dished up regularly. Most know very well what they are going to do abroad and in fact many are already doing it at home. Poverty does plays its role of course yet beyond that it is more a matter of a mentality that makes on receptive for this: the easy money and glamour attitude and the overall social desintegration and depravity that affects these societies. One of the many brilliant outcomes of the neo-liberal Brave New World in short.

Same in terms of depravity on the demand side.