Donna Hughes: Pimping on the Internet

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From 1996:

The Internet has become the latest place for pimping women and children. This global communications network is being used to promote the global trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and children. Men use newsgroups to exchange information on where to buy women and girls and how to treat them. Commercial agent pimps offer catalogues of mail order brides and sex tours. After their trips the men-write reports on how much they paid for the women and children, including pornographic descriptions of what they did to them. A new communication technology called live videoconferencing has given rise to a new form of prostitution - live personal sex shows for men over the Internet. This unregulated rapid publishing network is enabling a global marketing of women that is totally unprecedented.

Donna M. Hughes holds the Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Chair in Women's Studies at the University of Rhode Island, USA. Her research areas include women/gender and science and technology; violence against women and sexual exploitation; and women's organized resistance to violence. 

Since 1996: 

Donna Hughes is a researcher of prostitution and human trafficking who campaigned to end prostitution in Rhode Island. She is on the editorial board of the Sexualisation, Media, and Society journal and has written several books and book chapters on sex trafficking and other feminist topics.