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Legal. Illegal.

Bulbul works freelance in cartooning. See a varied selection of her cartoons at her website. www.bulbul.com

Turning Tricks

Bulbul works freelance in cartooning. See a varied selection of her cartoons at her website. www.bulbul.com

Voluntary Consent?

Bulbul works freelance in cartooning. See a varied selection of her cartoons at her website. www.bulbul.com

Istanbul, Turkey

Documentary photographer Mimi Chakarova gained entry to an illegal brothel in Istanbul. She managed to photograph a 52 year-old john grabbing a girl who had been trafficked from Eastern Europe.
The entitlement in this john's gesture speaks a thousand words about male supremacy and prostitution.

Legal Nevada Brothel

Stolen Away

This drawing is from an exhibition of drawings by Korean women describing their experience of sexual slavery in Japanese internment camps during World War II.
From Quest for Justice Tour 2000.
Sponsored by Myung Won Cultural Foundation www.nanum.org

Abandoned Refugee Camp, Europe

Three Women in Mexico City Prostitution

Isolation

What it felt like to be a 12-year old whore

Mind Control

"The Tourist"

2005 Myrna Balk
26 x 40 collage with silk paper.

This picture informs viewers about sex tourism - men's travel to other countries to exploit women, girls and boys. Sex tourism is a well-developed component of the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children. There are approximately 25 companies and 100 web sites offering sex tours. They are based in cities all across theUSA.
Copyright 2005 © by Myrna Balk

"The Buyers"

2005
Myrna Balk
33 x56 collage on packing paper.

Myrna Balk has used her art to call attention to issues related to women and girls. The world wide sex industry is sustained by the consumer ( or Buyer )of sexual exploitation.
Copyright © 2005 by Myrna Balk.

"Skirt of Sacrifice"

2000
Pastel

By Autumn Burris

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

Artist Mona Mark (New York, NY) created this image for the Coalition
Against Trafficking in Women. Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995.

Network in the North Against Prostitution and Violence

The Sami have organized against the institution of prostitution. The Sami are indigenous peoples in what is now Scandinavia, Finland, Lapland, and Russia.

"Husk"

by Christine Stark,
1999. Pastel.

This is a man's face over a prostituted woman, from her perspective.

"You Watch My Back, I Watch Yours, Sisters!"

Poster for drop-in support group for women in prostitution developed by Norma Hotaling and Melissa Farley 1995, San Francisco. Detail of mural by Diego Rivera, Mexico City.