About This Book
A firsthand exposé combines observations from work in urban slums, collected statistics, newspaper reports, and case material to portray an organized system of prostitution and the trafficking of young women into public brothels. The author describes recruitment and transportation methods, links vice to poverty and disease, and asserts complicity or indifference among local authorities and commercial interests. Emphasis is placed on the public, advertised nature of the trade and its financial scale, while the narrative alternates descriptive reporting with moral appeals. The pamphlet concludes with calls for church, civic, and legal action to rescue victims and dismantle the trafficking networks.
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