European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine personal crusade against prostitution by Judy Klemesrud new York times Kathleen Barry is a soft spoken bran Deis University sociologist whose first concern As a feminist was rape she was a coauthor of the first Stop rape handbook in in those she i thought that nothing could be worse than then she heard about the International traffic in women for forced today the 43yearold Barry is one of the recognized experts on the and her goal is the eradication of forced prostitution around the world something she believes is its like Black slavery in the 19th she said recently in a interview in her apartment in you have to begin to imagine it would not exist then cracks Start to and eventually you get rid of there is nothing inevitable about Barry is the author of female sexual first published in 1979 by Prentice Hall and recently reissued by new York University in she tells of women who Are abducted or sold for sexual purposes and wind up in the United West saudi Arabia and other the which has been translated into four Lan served As the basis for a 1983 United nations report that said prostitution is slavery and a grave cause for International in 1983 in Barry founded the International feminist network against female sexual involving 24 women from 24 countries who work with grassroots women organizations in their respective the network is financed by Grants from the dutch government and the Ford largely because of barrys International trafficking in women was one of the topics discussed at forum the nongovernmental women conference which ended Friday in the conference took place in conjunction with a United nation sponsored women conference in Nai the two conferences marked the end of the United nations decade for last Barry was one of 14 women honoured by the wonder woman an organization that gives Grants of to women Over 40 for their contributions to at the award ceremonies in new Barry was hailed As a fearless Pioneer who forced recognition of the global scope of this forbidden the citation for a Long time the truth her work unearthed was denied and she was considered a wave Barry has spent 10 years of her life research ing and writing about what she Calls female sexual she said that although her Book has not received any negative she has been criticized by fellow As Well As some civil sociologists have tended to consider forced prostitution As too controversial too Deal she theres this notion that i should be doing something that some civil she defend prostitution As freely chosen according to a number of including the Ivory Paraguay and the Island of new York times Kathleen Zanzibar Are involved in the trafficking of she said that these often As Young As Are usually kidnapped or fraudulently then sent to Eros centers in West Arab harems in North Africa and saudi or brothels in the United France and South the sociologist said she had obtained her information through the International police organization from former prostitutes who had and from people who had witnessed or been involved in the tray the practice has been shrouded in she because the male brotherhood protects there Are economic interests plus the Assumption that sex is a right for the secrecy she said is one reason that not Many other organizations or feminist groups have gotten involved with the among those that she Are the antislavery based in and equips action action teams against the traffic of women and in another topic in her Book that was on the Agenda of forum 85 in Nairobi was sex she involves the organized travel of men to asian countries especially South the Philippines and sri Lanka where they have sex july 1985 with whom they sometimes marry and bring Barry said the male travellers were from the United Scandinavia and the nether at least four travel agencies in the United states arrange such she the passivity and docility of the women arc she the promoters say that is the nature of the asian Many men who take the Tours say they Are looking for brides who arc alternatives to liberated american one of the biggest problems she laces in her work is the Happy Hooker which she believes tends to glorify prostitution and makes it seem like an alternative work the Xaviera hollanders of the world Only represent about 5 percent of the prostitute she quoting from her More prostitutes Are runaways who become and Pimp con trolled prostitution is female sexual asked if she had any cause for she said she thought that some prostitutes were becoming More aware of the exploitive nature of their and were using a new language to describe their in the 1970s their language was very and they would say things like this happened to me or i fell into she now there saying thing like 1 was held in slavery and this new she is the result of Femi nist work on new sexual assault units in police rape crisis television pro Grams and books like female sexual Barry said she had no evidence that women were leaving the but recognition of the abuse and enslavement of ones condition is absolutely the first step in getting and usually one follows the she told of a recent meeting with a 17yearold prostitute in Boston who had escaped after having been kidnapped and tortured by a she recognized it As a sexual and she had the sense to go to the police departments sexual assault unit rather than the vice she the she is being protected by a group of former prostitutes while the Pimp is in awaiting asked about Marco who Heads a san Francisco based organization that de fends prostitutes she replied Margo was very helpful in providing information about women being victimized and exploited by but we basically because i want to end and she regards it As a viable who is was born in to working class parents her father worked in Road her Mother was a she holds a double doctorate in sociology and education from the University of California in before coming to where she is an assistant professor of Sociol she taught at the University of Massachusetts and California state she said she planned to use her wonder woman award to finish a biography on Susan an and to further her Campaign against female sex Ual in the she and when it has to be i have to do the stars and stripes Page 13