As you know, Im constantly researching and research spurs thoughts, documentaries do the same thing as well. I was watching a forty five minute documentary on Demand, by Share Hope International. In case you do not know, sex trafficking is an extremely large social justice issue today that you see world wide..it is something that ultimately needs to be ended. The issue of trafficking as a whole is something that needs to be worked on. I think of the number of people who are trafficked into the U.S. each year, and I wonder if we are doing our job correctly? What about border control, and documents how are people getting on planes without the proper documents? How do people get into the U.S. without proper documents?
You see, the whole thought behind this is that the reason it is an issue is because of the demand. If there was no demand there would be no need for it. Media plays a huge role in the problem. People do not wake up one morning and say I want to have sex with a girl on the street etc.
Sites that say just barely legal whether it is porn, or it is on a window in another country, the vast majority of the time they are well underage. There are all forms of trafficking whether it is prostitution...just because you think they are prostitute and they are out there because they want to be does not mean that is the life they have chosen for themselves. The vast majority of the time a prostitute is a victim of sex trafficking, and it is hard to leave once they are in not because they do not want to but because they are constantly in debt to the pimp.
When we gain knowledge what do we do with it? How do digest the knowledge than raise awareness about what we have learned? This is a battle I am still fighting. I am still trying to learn what to do about these things, but what I do know is I have a voice, and I am going to share what I learn here and hopefully my thoughts will spark interest and you will begin to learn on your own about what is going on.
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