Goldman Sachs spécule sur la prostitution des mineures ! On aurait pu croire à un "maquereau" d’avril, mais les faits de spéculation financière appuyée sur les profits du proxénétisme, révélés le 1er avril par le New York Times, sont bien réels, comme les énormes gains dégagés.
L’info émane du très sérieux New York Times, sous la signature d’un journaliste de renom, deux fois lauréat du Prix Pulitzer : Nicholas D. Kristof. La société Goldman Sachs, prestigieuse banque d’affaires de Wall Street, aurait été depuis 2000 co-propriétaire de la plus grande compagnie américaine spécialisée dans la promotion et l’exploitation de la prostitution, notamment de mineures. La plus grande plateforme du trafic sexuel de jeunes filles mineures aux Etats-Unis, écrivait Kristof le 1er avril 2012, semble être un site Internet appelé Backpage.com ; ce véritable magasin de filles et femmes, mineures et obligées de se prostituer, est lui-même la propriété d’une compagnie équivoque du nom de Village Voice Media.
Revenue from prostitution advertising increases in January. Five websites that carry prostitution advertisements in the United States set a record with combined revenue of nearly $3.3 million during January. The total was up 1.4 percent from December and 3.3 percent from January 2011. It’s the highest combined revenue total since Craigslist stopped selling advertising for escorts and other adult services in September 2010. About 70 percent of the revenue was attributed to Backpage.com, which generated at least $2.6 million from the sale of online ads for prostitution and body rubs in 23 U.S. cities. January’s revenue at Backpage dropped 1.9 percent compared to the previous month, according to estimates by the AIM Group. However, Backpage’s January revenue was 23.5 percent higher than the $2.1 million estimated in the same month last year.
During the last 12 months, prostitution advertising in 23 U.S. cities has generated at least $36.3 million, the AIM Group estimates. There were other signs of prostitution-ad growth in January. Financers and Sex Trafficking. The Backpage dilemma. This week saw a renewed effort, led by the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof, to pressure Village Voice Media’s online classified site Backpage.com to shutter its adult section.
On Sunday, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist offered up a harrowing story about “Alissa,” whose pimp used the site to sell her for sex at the age of 16 and 17. A couple of days later, Kristof responded to a Village Voice article claiming that his original column contained factual errors with a rebuttal and a call for Backpage to “get out of carrying prostitution advertising” altogether. For many progressives, there is a dramatic tension here: Horror at the existence of child trafficking, and a desire to see it disappear, and yet a belief that consenting adults should be able to do what they want sexually — maybe even if it involves the exchange of money. Given the complexities here, details are especially important — and they’ve gotten lost in this emotionally charged debate. INITIÉ – Goldman Sachs, les petites annonces et l’exploitation sexuelle.