<p>Frazzledmaybe, unfortunately these things are very common all over the world. I do believe that as Mount Holyoke women, we are obliged to do whatever we can to break the patriarchal laws and ensure that women in the future will not be considered as the inferior sex, as the other sex. I have yet to hear about an adult man being sold as a sex slave, and this shows the supremacy that men have and so desperately want it. This is the feminist in me talking, but it is hard to lose friends because of this mentality and then pretend like nothing has happened. We are, indeed, very, very lucky.</p>