• ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    This is an underlying and dark current that people don’t really talk about much with this conflict. The millions of Ukrainian refugees are primarily women and children and thousands of them have been trafficked or fallen into sex work without any other way to make an income, stranded in an unfamiliar land. In the UK, there was a program where people could offer to let a refugee stay at their home and it was a bunch of middle age creeps putting women up in their house. Surely nothing untowards there.

    Part of war has almost always been the stealing of women. They are considered loot like the gold from Iraqi museums, part of the conquest of war. It’s fucking disgusting, but I bet there’s a non-zero amount of westerners who support this conflict and escalating it because they would get tons of vulnerable women flowing into their hands.

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      I bet there’s a non-zero amount of westerners who support this conflict and escalating it because they would get tons of vulnerable women flowing into their hands.

      There’s already sex pest websites and organizations that market the idea of human trafficking as “saving/rescuing” Ukranian women. A lot of especially treatbrained sex pests and potential predators don’t just want to creep on vulnerable women: they want to be thanked for it.

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        they want to be thanked for it.

        I kinda think this is a result of the part of them that isn’t awful trying and failing to get them to realize this is bad, so they are left with guilt that they need their victim to absolve

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          I kinda think this is a result of the part of them that isn’t awful trying and failing to get them to realize this is bad, so they are left with guilt that they need their victim to absolve

          Main Character Syndrome at work. They can’t be bad for craving what they crave and they don’t want to stop, so it must be an act of heroism instead.

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    What do you even call this kind of awful masking of sexual exploitation? Pinkwashing doesn’t seem right or strong enough. This really is a razor thin veneer over sex trafficking.

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      Zombiebrain may be a crude but somewhat applicable slang, specifically the chud fantasy of “rescuing” women from mortal danger and expecting coerced sex “rewards” for their dubious heroism.

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    They’re just being incorporated into the imperial sex trafficking network, right along the women of the American Southwest, the Carribean Islands, and the Pacific Rim. Business as usual.

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        Rich people having banks in Switzerland to avoid prosecution. Ukraine and Moldova had actual CP studios in the 2000s and I don’t just mean some guys in their basement. I mean a literal porn studio with pinup model shoots and everything. Treating the children like adult porn stars.

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          ah, gotcha. I was a little confused because it could either mean an illegal home, like it does here, or a neutral location. That’s disgusting.

  • “TerOnly” is the “clever” name to play off OnlyFans and Territorial Defence, supposedly. of course the neologism sounds like a mushmouthed “terror only”.

    but all of that is besides the fact that no level of execution can overshadow how repugnant this concept is.

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    This is probably the tip of the shit iceberg for Ukraine. Can’t imagine the sex trafficking gets ant better after the war when its considered safe for the sex tourists to travel to.

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      After maidan coup govt hit Ukraine with new wave of economical shock therapy, millions of Ukrainians went into Poland and further in EU in search of living. Men were more fortunate, largely getting permits to stay and legal jobs (a socialdumping ones though), there was around 1,7-2 millions of them in Poland. But there was also huge number of Ukrianians living in the gray zone here, and those were mostly women. Hired, often illegally, as houskeepers, servants… with or without " ". And a whole lot ended openly as prostitutes.

      And that was even before the full war.

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        The whole former USSR was like that.

        CW: Sexual violence against minors.

        I saw a harrowing street interview with a homeless Russian girl who looked like she was around 10. The interviewer asks her how she makes money for food and she just casually answers that she has sex with men. Interviewer pauses then asks her how many other kids are doing it and she just says “oh, all the kids my age are doing it.”