Apr 13 2008
Survival sex: the un-talked about consequence of war
Wars, without fail, create refugees.
But despite frantic international conversation about weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and democracy, the welfare of those refugees falls a little by the wayside.
What happens to Iraqi refugees once they’re removed from the war zone?
Last year, Nihal Hissan reported in The Independent on the plentiful nightclubs outside of Damascus, overflowing with refugee girls– most of them teenagers.
Iraqi refugee women have no legal means of making money if they have no male family members with them.
For many, there is no other option besides prostitution, or, as this NBC report dubs it– “survival sex.”
