Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Global Warming Could Turn Some Women Into Hookers

From The Hill:

Dem resolution warns climate change could push women to ‘transactional sex’
Several House Democrats are calling on Congress to recognize that climate change is hurting women more than men, and could even drive poor women to "transactional sex" for survival.

The resolution, from Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and a dozen other Democrats, says the results of climate change include drought and reduced agricultural output. It says these changes can be particularly harmful for women.

"[F]ood insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy, and poor reproductive health," it says.

Climate change could also add "workload and stresses" on female farmers, which the resolution says produce 60 to 80 percent of the food in developing countries....MORE
You know what leads to folks working the sex trade in developing countries?
Poverty and Desperation caused by a lack of economic development.
Rep. Lee might be better advised to figure out why some areas have not climbed the economic ladder. That would go a lot further to decrease the need for "transactional sex" than her global warming resolution.