In the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in human trafficking. Eliminating human traffi cking has become a foreign and domestic policy goal for many countries, including the United States. Following the passage of the Traffi cking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish [...]
A look at how human trafficking victims fare in life and love after surviving the sex trade. Samantha* is 30 years old. She is a makeup artist, a nanny, a professing Christian and an advocate against human trafficking. This cause is near and dear to her heart because she has been there herself. At the [...]
Find full, original post here at New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/opinion/how-pimps-use-the-web-to-sell-girls.html?_r=1 By: Nicholas D. Kristof In November, a terrified 13-year-old girl pounded on an apartment door in Brooklyn. When a surprised woman answered, the girl pleaded for a phone. She called her mother, and then dialed 911. Damon Winter/The New York Times * The girl, whom I’ll call [...]
Two South Florida men are facing potential life prison sentences after they were convicted of filming rapes of women for sale as pornography. The Associated Press December 9, 2011 Find original article here: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2016972003_apusrapespornfilms.html?prmid=obinsource MIAMI — Two South Florida men are facing potential life prison sentences after they were convicted of filming rapes of women [...]
Gert Martin Hald, Neil M. Malamuth, and Carlin Yuen University of California, Los Angeles, California University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark New York University Law School, New York City, New York Abstract: In this study, we examined the unique contribution of pornography consumption to the longitudinal prediction of criminal recidivism in a sample of 341 child [...]
Orlando Sentinel Dec. 7, 2011 By Wayne K. Roustan Two men, one a former police officer, were convicted in Miami federal court Wednesday of luring, drugging, raping and videotaping women to sell to pornography websites and stores, according to U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer. Lavont Flanders Jr., 40, of Miami Gardens, and Emerson “Jah-T” Callum, [...]
by Victor B. Cline, PhD (c) 2002 Abstract: Whether pornography has any significant harmful effects on consumers continues to be a controversial issue, not only for average citizens but also for behavioral scientists. Some social commentators claim that pornography is mainly a form of entertainment, possibly educational, sometimes sexually arousing, but essentially harmless. Or, [...]
Abstract: Human trafficking cannot be fully understood until the linkage of prostitution and pornography usage are known and addressed. This is key in understanding why human trafficking has become such a huge societal issue. There has to be a root cause evaluation to assess why the prostitution of women exists, which means that there has to be a [...]
I went to theological seminary in Portland, Oregon. That might sound rather ensconced and safe, but I worked at a large commercial bakery in a run-down industrial section of the city. This exposed me to some things I would rather have not seen, as when, driving along a side-street one evening, I found myself running a [...]
A new documentary on human trafficking shows it’s a more serious problem inside the U.S. than most people realize. The film, entitled “Sex and Money,” produced by a group of young Christian filmmakers, focuses on the dangers of pornography, which fuels this modern-day tragedy. The goal behind the film is to let ordinary Americans know [...]
