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So the UN’s definition of human trafficking is “ Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit.”
Let's consider a scenario where a 45-year-old man notices a 25-year-old woman who is eager to move out of her family's house. The man love bombs her, pretending to genuinely care for her, future fake, and convinces her to move to a new city with him. However, once she moves in with him, he gradually and subtly changes his behavior, trying to mold her emotionally and sexually according to his preferences. He abuses her to get what he wants, gradually chipping away her self esteem. She ends up taking care of all the household chores and essentially becomes his therapist, maid and cook. He secretly cheats, and requests threesomes for 'variety.' From an outsider's perspective, it may appear to be a 'loving relationship' since he’s covering rent and the age gap is “only” 20 years old, and she’s not forced to provide sexual service to strangers. But she’s being manipulated into providing sexual service to her 45 year old boyfriend. She doesn’t know that her boyfriend doesn’t really love her. Had she known that he doesn't love her ( in fact, he hates her), cheats on her with 10+ other women, and just wants her to cook and clean and revolve her life around him, she wouldn’t consent to having sex or living with him in the first place.
This situation fits the definition of human trafficking. The man used deception to lure the woman in for profit, obtaining free cooking, housekeeping, therapy, and emotional support etc. Meanwhile, the woman has little to no free time as she takes on all these unpaid responsibilities, and her life has to revolve around his life, while the man's career, social life, and health continue to improve.
I feel like many so-called 'romantic' relationships are human trafficking. What do you think?
I'd be careful of using legal terminology to describe male sexual exploitation. Women need to stop fucking men, and we need to actively undo their spiritual attacks on us.
I think this is a valid observation. All men use coersion, fraud, deception, and an inherent threat of physical of force to get sex. The age difference in your example isn't even relevant. Men the same age as you do this too.
In some countries, lying to get sex is a crime punishable by law and I think that's great.
Well done on calling out most "romantic" relationships for what they are: thinly disguised instances of human trafficking.
It's disturbing that most people (at least in the U.S.) accept the underlying predatory nature of male-female romantic relationships. A woman has to be brainwashed into accepting it as the norm. And in the U.S., the brainwashing starts from birth.
Source: UN website (https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/crime.html)
Nope, not human trafficking. But I do recognize your situation as a uniquely female oppression experience. Maybe we should give it a name?