Illicit FlirtationsIn 2004, the U. S. State Department declared Filipina hostesses in Japan the largest group of sex trafficked persons in the world. Since receiving this global attention, the number of hostesses entering Japan has dropped by nearly 90 percentfrom more than 80,000 in 2004 to just over 8,000 today. To some, this might suggest a victory for the global anti trafficking campaign, but Rhacel Parreas counters that this drastic declinewhich stripped thousands