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TRAPPED FOREVER
IN SEX SLAVERY,
EH? - PART 2
Canada Is the World’s Latest Portal of Human Traffic
WORDS AND PHOTOS
BY DOUGLAS HADDOW |
| Yo-Yo has two kids in Taiwan and enjoys looking through photos of her family and friends whenever she isn’t pretending to enjoy having sex with Canadian scumbags. |
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The brothels are generally located in newly built downtown one-bedroom condos, each of which houses one to three girls, on call from midday until 4 AM.
The pimps depersonalize them by assigning them cartoonish names like Cherry, Apple, Bobo, or Gigi. The typical workweek tends to last around 84 hours. Many girls end up working for gangs that run numerous brothels within walking distance of each other. When a trick calls up for his weekly taste of strange, the mama-san will answer the phone, check a master schedule to see which girls are free, and then direct him to the corresponding brothel. When he rings up to begin his 45-minute session, it will be the first time he speaks to the girl. From that point on, she is responsible for delivering $120 to the management, no matter how creepy, abusive, or filthy her client happens to be.
When I met Candy, a 20-year-old girl from Taiwan, she had just come up to Vancouver from San Francisco the month before and was holed up in a brand-new condo downtown. She seemed elated to meet a Canadian who wasn’t planning on getting off, and gleefully agreed to meet me for a coffee at the Starbucks around the corner the next day. When we met, she was wearing a pink velour jumpsuit and looked like she hadn’t slept or showered.
| Yvonne came from Hong Kong a couple of months ago. She was told she would able to get modeling work but has given up hope and resigned herself to lying around all day in her live/work brothel. Her pimp told her she will be moving to Calgary soon, so she wants to see the ocean once again before she leaves. |
Although she had to make an abrupt exit after receiving a call from her pimp, Candy seemed relatively free to do as she pleased during downtime. Her disorientation and mental fatigue were painful to witness, as were the bruises on her wrists. She was proud of her Gucci watch and showed it off with a smile, and even though she wasn’t able to attend school like she was promised, she still studied English vocabulary in her spare time. We went for coffee once more the next week and chatted a bit about her favorite movie stars, but the next time I called, her phone was dead. I never heard from her again.
Vancouver’s ongoing development boom has been a windfall for sex slavers. Many new condos are gobbled up by rich Asian businessmen who view them as a minor investment rather than living space. With each trafficked girl bringing in an average of $100K per year, gangs can easily afford to buy up or lease multiple condos in the same building, turning a static investment into a moneymaking machine that runs on lies and STDs.
One day, after chatting with Yo-Yo for a while, I got up to leave. She panicked, begging me to phone her boss and explain why I didn’t go for full service (45 minutes of “anything goes” sex for $120). After calling up the management and voicing her plea, Yo-Yo passed me the phone:
“Hello?”
“What wrong you no get full service?” a woman rattled out at me.
Not wanting to explain to her that I’m actually a journalist investigating her fucked-up slavery empire, I tried to sweet-talk her a little.
“Yeah… didn’t have time today, so I just went for a bit of a back massage. She’s a great girl though, I’ll definitely be back.”
“You call me next time before, OK?” she barked and then hung up.
| Yo-Yo loves Hello Kitty and spends all her extra money on cutesy discount kitsch from the mall across the street from her apartment. |
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23-year-old Yumiko comes from a city just outside Beijing. She came to Canada to learn English and find a job but is now giving full-body massages out of a seedy motel room. |
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See all articles by this contributor Anonymous, on Sep 19, 2009 wrote:
Ufffff man i think this people who do this shit and the shit mens that pays for it, dont deserve to call himself humans, i think they dont deserve any kind of mercy, this world would be a better world without this scumbags, so i vote for KIL EM ALL! | | Anonymous, on Jul 28, 2009 wrote:
Does Vice have so much journalistic cred they don’t have to cite sources when they say " more like 10,000"? Not so compelling without a source.
Also, if you’re writing about heinous crime on large scale, shouldn’t there be some mention of current attempts at punishment?
| | Anonymous, on Oct 28, 2008 wrote:
this is fucking heart breaking.
and this is fucking true:
"...what’s worse is that no one else brings a damn thing to the table either..."
i want to do something good about something like this before i die. | | Anonymous, on Sep 2, 2008 wrote:
lying around all-day screwing guys, at risk of std’s and violence, while enslaved. Why does that always happen to someone else? There is just not enough choice in modern western democracies. | | Anonymous, on Sep 2, 2008 wrote:
yeah your right, it is all made up, theres no such thing as a ’canada’ | | Anonymous, on Aug 26, 2008 wrote:
victoria is super pretty city but also allegedly the child prostitution/deportation capital of north america. bottom line is it’s not small timers making this happen but folks with business and government ties, go figure. | | Anonymous, on Aug 25, 2008 wrote:
if you all haven’t realized yet most of the articles in vice are made-up/fake. | | Anonymous, on Aug 25, 2008 wrote:
this artcle is meant to tittilate the publication’s mostly teenage male readership. The author and magazine had no intent to help these girls. | | Anonymous, on Aug 24, 2008 wrote:
fuckin brilliant, this is totally fucked. | | Anonymous, on Aug 23, 2008 wrote:
hhong kong is so fucking rich yeah? | | Anonymous, on Aug 23, 2008 wrote:
the poor rural areas of HONG KONG?? This article needs to stop contradicting itself. | | Anonymous, on Aug 21, 2008 wrote:
The sexy photos of these exploited women really validates the article... | | Anonymous, on Aug 21, 2008 wrote:
UM IF YOUR GOING TO GO MEET THESE GIRLS AND WRITE A FUCKING ARTICLE, WHY NOT REPORT THIS TO THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AND FREE THESE GIRLS FROM THIS LIFE? I DONT GET IT HOW CAN YOU JUST WATCH THIS, TAKE PICTURES AND HEAR/SEE IT ALL HAPPEN. WTF? | | Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
This article is a piece of crap. The photos are professional shots. Vice is the uber-right | | Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
Canada’s inability to act on this issue comes down to the RCMP being completely useless. They can hardly handle the Angels let alone asian gangs that live in ethnic enclaves and speak languages that aren’t English or French. | | Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
That’s right people, it’s the white man that’s to blame, not the asian society for creating a homeland that makes these girls want to flee, or the asians who bring these girls over and enslave them. It’s the evil white man’s fault for having the money to pay... bad white man! | | Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
its not all white guys who are the johns but its definately not asians setting the policy of inaction against human trafficing | | Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
I think this is being allowed because horny white guys want to fuck asian girls without the "embarassment" of having to date them and being seen with them in public. White men are master hypocrites | | Anonymous, on Aug 17, 2008 wrote:
Head tax wasn’t racist. Only Chinese immigrants had to pay, while the Japanese, East Indians, and other asian nationalities were not taxed. | | Anonymous, on Aug 17, 2008 wrote:
what fucking idiot wrote the comment below me?
hey asshole, you are a fucking douche. | | Anonymous, on Aug 17, 2008 wrote:
Well, at least slutting in Canada is better than hopeless among billions in Asia. Yeah Canada! China, develop ur birth control system and stop spitting out future ho’s | | Anonymous, on Aug 16, 2008 wrote:
I taught in esl in sanchong city (taiwan) and it was preeety ghetto. | | Anonymous, on Aug 16, 2008 wrote:
hong kong? taiwan? those are not poor rural areas of china. There is something weird about this article | | Anonymous, on Aug 16, 2008 wrote:
According to an article I read in Der Spiegel, there have never been more ppl enslaved than right now. Only a small percentage of them ar sex slaves, most of them are kids sold to work by their parents. | | Anonymous, on Aug 15, 2008 wrote:
"I don’t see what the problem is. Guys like to pay for sex and women like to get money. Looks like a win-win situation to me."
How simplisitic can you be? Never mind failing to critiqe the rational decisions behind the womens ’choice’ how about the complex power relations involved in the sex industry. Idiot. | | Anonymous, on Aug 15, 2008 wrote:
it is easy to assume that women are trafficked in vastly greater numbers than reported, as such an occurrence is underground and everyone involved keeps their mouth shut about it out of greed and/or fear. one could assume 10,000 or more women are trafficked easily and this would not be ’biased’ nor poor journalism. | | Anonymous, on Aug 14, 2008 wrote:
"probably closer to 10,000"?? based on what? | | Anonymous, on Aug 14, 2008 wrote:
pretty sad situation, I just got this forwarded to me and I live in Vancouver - I had no idea shit like this was going down. | | Anonymous, on Aug 14, 2008 wrote:
note to viceland editors, demand more depth and detail. get your writers to really dig for shit and sign them on for a series of articles because the stories always change. the writer would most definitely go deeper if someone asks (pays) him to. | | Anonymous, on Aug 14, 2008 wrote:
"I don’t see what the problem is. Guys like to pay for sex and women like to get money. Looks like a win-win situation to me."
Thats only true if the women is constanting to doing that job...not if their being FORCED | | | Next 30 comments > |
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