While I understand the analogy, I disagree with the use of the term “slavery” in these cases.
The distinguishing fact of slavery is that it is a legally enforced relationship between two persons.
The “slavery” at issue here is an illegal relationship that is immediately quashed when brought to the attention of the authorities. This distinction does not perhaps make a huge difference in the daily lives of those so treated, but it says a great deal about the societies involved.
Slavery is not defined as a legally enforced relationship between two persons—it is bondage; it is a condition of domination by some person, influence, habit, etc. Many of the young women being exploited in these cases are in slavery, as defined. Some are even kidnapped girls and boys. And—the “relationships” are not “immediately being quashed when brought to the attention of the authorities.”
The problems is growing because very little is being done about it by “the authorities.”
Village Voice Media does massive amounts of damage control for the attacks they get over their prostitution ads that dominate their free alternative weekly papers coast to coast.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/kristof-where-pimps-peddle-their-goods.html?_r=0
Published: March 17, 2012
I WENT on a walk in Manhattan the other day with a young woman who once had to work these streets, hired out by eight pimps while she was just 16 and 17. She pointed out a McDonald’s where pimps sit while monitoring the girls outside, and a building where she had repeatedly been ordered online as if she were a pizza.
...After Alissa testified against her pimps, six of them went to prison for up to 25 years. Yet these days, she reserves her greatest anger not at pimps but at companies that enable them. She is particularly scathing about Backpage.com, a classified advertising Web site that is used to sell auto parts, furniture, boats — and girls. Alissa says pimps routinely peddled her on Backpage.
“You can’t buy a child at Wal-Mart, can you?” she asked me. “No, but you can go to Backpage and buy me on Backpage.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/kristof-where-pimps-peddle-their-goods.html?_r=0
Published: March 17, 2012
Just this month, prosecutors in New York City filed charges in a case involving a gang that allegedly locked a 15-year-old Long Island girl in an empty house, drugged her, tied her up, raped her, and advertised her on Backpage. After a week of being sold for sex, prosecutors in Queens said, the girl escaped.
Sounds like slavery and imprisonment to me.