Sex-trafficking stereotype demolished by new research. Alarmists nationwide in denial

[MedicalAdmin]

Great article on child prostitution. Pimps may not be as be as big of deal as previously thought. Finally someone has done a real study of what is going on out there.

And of course they were immediately ignored because the results of the study did not fit in with the conventional wisdom and fundraising goals of the established organizations who try to help.

This is a problem that needs attention as part of the 99, but it needs to be dealt with in a fashion based in reality and not via fox sound bite.



http://www.citypages.com/2011-11-02/news/lost-boys-new-research-demolishes-the-stereotype-of-the-underage-sex-worker-mdash-and-sparks-an-outbreak-of-denial-among-child-sex-trafficking-alarmists-nationwide/2/

[xchrom]

1. Recommend - this X-posted in lgbtiq forum. Nt

[MedicalAdmin]

2. Oh - I didn't look there and I should have but I thought it needed wider attention.

Do you think I should delete this as a dupe?

[bemildred]

3. No, it's fine, Xposting is sometimes good.

Dupes on the same forum are a bit tacky, but often nobody notices even then.

[xchrom]

5. No. I think it's cool.

It needs more attention.

[saras]

4. Excellent study. Too bad it doesn't debunk anything, nor say anything new

It's the same fucking situation, and the same goddamned denial, that Emile Zola and Charles Fucking Dickens wrote about.
Nor is it that different than the situation elsewhere in the Third World.

It's all "voluntary" because it's all better than what ELSE is available as a future for them. Offer them the same quality of life and income, but without the obligatory sex, and see how much of it is voluntary, especially the choice of partners.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. I read it, and having worked with street kids, I'd say it's spot on

Most kids in prostitution were recruited by other kids, and a lot of boys are selling themselves, too.

[mactime]

7. No evil boogieman to blame

No evil boogieman to blame so it gets tougher to get people involved. When you can point to an evil eastern European pimp kidnapping kids and forcing them in to sex, everybody gets angry and wants to help. When you say that these kids had to sell themselves because they are homeless, you might be forced to look at the underlying issue (homelessness) and that does not sit well with most.

[BrendaBrick]

8. Big events contribute to human trafficking

The Super Bowl of Sex Trafficking
Jan 30, 2011 10:00 AM EST

While football fans are eagerly anticipating the Feb. 6 Super Bowl showdown in Dallas, some state officials are gearing up for the big game’s dark side: the surge in human trafficking that tends to accompany major sports and entertainment events. “What we’ve learned is that sexual trafficking, sexual exploitation of children in particular, is all about supply and demand,” says Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. With more than 100,000 fans descending on Dallas, that demand is going to be great. There is a “looming potential explosion of human trafficking around the Super Bowl,” says Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who is expecting hundreds of girls and women to be brought to the area.

Past Super Bowls have borne this out. In the wake of 2009’s game in Tampa, Florida’s Department of Children and Families took in 24 children who’d been trafficked to the city for sex work. Given that Texas, according to Abbott, is second only to California when it comes to trafficking, the figures for Dallas could be even worse.
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But activists are impressed by how seriously Texas is taking the threat. “The involvement of the attorney general and law enforcement is far greater than anything we’ve seen before,” says Malika Saada Saar, the executive director of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, an anti-trafficking NGO. The FBI and the attorney general’s office will have almost two dozen extra staffers devoted to investigating and arresting pimps and johns who trade in underage girls. “We’re trying to send a message to human traffickers that we are watching them,” Abbott says. “We will find them, arrest them, and put them behind bars.”

In the past, prostitution crackdowns have sometimes doubly victimized trafficked girls, imprisoning them instead of finding them help. But Abbott has convinced Saada Saar that won’t happen here. “Sometimes, if not frequently, people who are seemingly offering up prostitution services are victims of human trafficking,” he says. “Instead of trying to commit a crime, they are victims of a crime.”

Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/01/30/the-super-bowl-of-sex-trafficking.html

Other related articles: "Brazil: Activists address sex trafficking in advance of Olympic Games" 8-10-2011

http://www.speroforum.com/a/58449/Brazil-Activists-address-sex-trafficking-in-advance-of-Olympic-Games

"British Film Warns of Sex Trafficking of London Olympics" 8-3-2011

http://charismanews.com/culture/31703

A little known crime which needs to continue increasing awareness and prevention...