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Sex trafficking is a local and real problem with over 100,000 U.S. children exploited each year. The average age that a child is first exploited through sex trafficking is 13 years old.

Educated to Fight Child Trafficking

325,000 children are at risk each year of being sexually exploited.

Human trafficking is an enormous, ugly terror that plagues the United States, however by educating ourselves, our communities, and our children, we can make a change.

The channels for change are up and running, and the Institute of Medicine released a video informing America of the exploitations that are happening in our own back yards.

Through this, we are able to understand that human trafficking isn't as far off as we think. We often like to think that these horrors only happen in third world countries, places that aren't as advanced as the US, places that aren't as pretty, yet the reality is that human trafficking, especially the exploitation of children, is happening right now, somewhere in your neighborhood.

The actual chance that you have encountered an exploited child, is extremely high.

When looking at statistics, we are immediately able to notice three things:

50% of victims are under 18

1 in 3 teens on the street will be lured into prostitution

Pimps can make more money exploiting children rather than having an actual job.

There are things we can do to take action. REPORT REPORT REPORT. If you suspect that a child may be even in the slightest bit of danger, tell someone. In 2013 alone, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children reported that they received 505,280 CyberTipline reports.

The world can be a scary and dangerous place, however by educating ourselves and our neighbors on the facts, we can help our children grow up in a safer world.

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To my neighbors:

A pimp makes $150,000-$200,000 per child each year. The average pimp owns 4-6 girls.

Each day women are oppressed and silenced by their fear- forced every day to perform vulgar acts. 300,000 children are at risk of being prostituted in the United States each year. We cannot stand by and watch these children be victimized by adults they are taught to trust.

We teach our youth to respect adults and their bodies, but what happens when they are lied to and betrayed?

While many victims are forced to stay in the sex-trafficking industry throughout their adult years, the average age of entry into prostitution for a child victim in the United States is 13-14 years old.

Most of these children are still in middle school. From playing on playgrounds to being forced to perform inconceivable acts. From first crushes to lost trust. These are our sons and daughters. Innocence that has been stolen away.

Can we let this go on any longer? There is no way to reverse the past but there are actions we can take to make the future a better place for our children to live. Our children’s voices have been silenced. So today we must be their voice. We must start by taking this issue back to the dinner table. Then to the water cooler at work. The church parking lot and in the grocery stores aisles. To strengthen our voice in numbers is to strengthen our community. We can no longer let these pimps break our children.

Let’s band together, arm in arm, and strengthen our walls. Find the resources in our networks, wallets, and local government to provide resources for the survivors of these horrific crimes. Let’s arm our law enforcement with the knowledge needed to track these monsters hunting our children. Let’s arm our survivors with resources to rest and then revive their lives. Our shelters need to be staffed with passionate hearts and an arsenal of resources and tools.

We are more than capable to be advocates. We are needed to be warriors. It is time to go into battle.

We are one movement to progress. We are one community strong. And we are one voice heard. Let us speak for the children whose voices have been stolen.

Sincerely a concerned citizen, Samantha Sternad

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Melissa Woodward speaks out about being sold as a child into the sex trade industry in America and her life as a child prostitute and stripper. Melissa is now the executive director of a non-profit organization who’s mission it is to Prevent, Rescue and Heal children victimized by sex trafficking in America. www.FortheSakeofOne.org

Sex Trafficking in America: A Former Sex Slave’s Story of Hope

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Watch the whole talk here»

This guy stopped watching porn — and he wants you to know why. Gender activist Ran Gavrieli felt that most of the images he saw in porn encouraged negative, even violent, attitudes toward women, despite a recent wave of feminist porn. So he pulled the plug, and found that his personal sex life and private fantasies became much more fulfilling. In his talk at TEDxJaffa, he advocates for physically and emotionally-safe sex, as well as erotica that shows a wider range of fulfilling sexual experiences — including the intimacy of human connection, laughter, and touch. Watch his talk here.

Letter to the Editor.

In response to Rick Gladstone’s “U.N. Report Shows an Increase in Trafficking of Children”:

Beaten. Belittled. Betrayed.

These are common sentiments that victims of sex trafficking share. Yet they endure these feelings long after their captivity and abuse has ceased.

What happens after they are rescued? How do they escape from the hellish captivity of their memories?

They are more than a statistic or a demographic. To these children, being one of the 27 million people forced into sex slavery is more than just an enormous, unattainable number. They live this reality every day. It is the number of play dates they missed, uncelebrated birthdays, and the innumerable times they cried out for a mother, only to hear silence. One out of 27 million is one too many.

Yet, putting the numbers aside. There is an increasing amount of children being forced to perform obscene acts. The issue that we are truly facing as a world comes down to this simply complicated paradox: How can we save these children through media outlets without further exploiting them?

The answer is simple: don’t exploit them.

Instead of recording the increases of children in slavery across the world, maybe it’s time to make some changes. It’s time to take a stand and rescue these children. Give them a name. Give them a face. Give them their lives back. Haven’t they been dehumanized enough?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/world/africa/un-report-shows-an-increase-in-child-trafficking.html?_r=0

Silenced by Stigmas

After a woman is rescued from human trafficking, they are still far from salvation. They are faced with silence that is provoked by shame. The silence that is invoked by feeling inadequate. The silence brought to light with the feelings of being tainted or used.

These women are enchained, long after they are set free. Their imprisonment lasts long after they are banished to redemption. In this next phase of their lives, they are often crippled with fear, addicted to substances, and victimized by the programs they seek to find help. Yet even in these times where they find themselves unbound and liberated, they are followed by the shadows of their past. While their emotional memories plague them, they have more physical demons to deal with as well.

A majority of women who were imprisoned by sex traffickers, have been forced to be involved in the porn industry. After being beaten, drugged, raped, and brutalized, these women are forced to perform powerlessly like circus monkeys in front of a camera while the weak videographers and pimps direct their every move. Long after these women escape their capture however, they are forced with the reality that their helpless, naked bodies are forever trapped in the cyber world, to be forever sexualized and abused with every click of a mouse. These women are forever silenced by the reality that they are stuck behind a screen, and no amount of ‘rescue’ or ‘salvation’ can help them to escape. They are forever pawns and forever faced with the stigmas of society.

She is a slut. She is a whore. She is dirty. She is used. No. She is a victim.

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