#sex trafficking //

[liberalsarecool]

When MAGA talks about human trafficking and pedophiles, they are talking about themselves.

Every Republican in Congress knows they have a duty to protect paternalistic rapists and sex offenders. They all betray every woman/girl/child in America in the name of Trump.

The betrayal is the MAGA design.

[pro-birth]

Forcing the term "sex worker" into the conversation has been the stupidest fucking thing people could have done. I had to watch a charity ad about a """sex worker""" who lives in a fucking train station and is forced to give "paid sex" to men and boys who threaten her or her baby with knives but she's a """"SEX WORKER???""""

BITCH SHE IS A VICTIM OF RAPE! SHUT THE FUCK UP! I DON'T CARE WHAT FUCKING SOB STORY YOU CLAIM TO HAVE ABOUT """WORKERS""" NEEDING DIGNITY, YOU TOOK THAT DIGNITY AWAY THE MOMENT YOU TURNED FINANCIALLY COERCED RAPE INTO A FUCKING JOB! ONLYFANS AND PORN ISN'T EMPOWERING BECAUSE THE ONES DETERMINING YOUR WORTH ARE HOLDING THE PURSE STRINGS!!!!

RAPISTS ARE NOT CUSTOMERS, PIMPS ARE NOT EMPLOYERS, AND "SEX WORKERS" ARE NOT EMPLOYEES. RAPE/FINANCIALLY COERCED SEX IS NOT A SERVICE AND THE BODIES OF VICTIMS ARE NOT PRODUCTS YOU CAN PAY FOR, EVER. SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT """SEX WORK"""!!!!

[ex-foster]

Former foster kid quote on the foster care to sex trafficking pipeline.

[reality-detective]

Bombshell Report! Sean “Diddy” Combs Indicted on S*x Trafficking and Racketeering Charges: Unveiling the Dark Side of an Industry Giant

Sean “Diddy” Combs faces explosive charges of s*x trafficking, racketeering, and coercion. The music mogul’s dark secrets unravel in a scandal that could expose Hollywood’s darkest underworld. Will Diddy’s tapes and client list shake the industry to its core? Breaking news!

[cheerfullycatholic]

From ourrescue on Instagram. Link to article here

[sbrown82]

[profeminist]

Sometimes the trash takes itself out

Trump fans stop pretending you care about girls challenge

[thepro-lifemovement]

Genuinely genuinely, why does it matter so much?

Like if it's not your "baby", why does it matter to you whether it lives or dies. If I gave birth to a baby in 9 months time, you would not know. If I had an abortion in 4 weeks time, you would not know. Why does it matter to you?

Because abortion is a human rights violation and that matters to me and should matter to everyone. Just because I don’t see a rape happen doesn’t mean it shouldn’t matter to me. Just because I don’t see an evil act happen doesn’t mean I can’t speak out against it. An evil act is an evil act, no matter if I know it happens or not. I’m still against child or sex trafficking even though I don’t know anyone personally who have been trafficked. An innocent human being intentionally killed matters to me and it should matter to you, no matter what.

-Sarah

[velvetminefield]

Be careful out there. And if you know younger fans, please look out for them. There are so many opportunities for predators in fandom spaces.

[naughtybg3confessions]

I have part of one of my Tav's backstory that she was a sex slave and feels really guilty about liking (parts of) it, and I think Halsin would help her work through that. Between his own past and also just being really *experienced* with all manner of sex, I'm sure he could guide her though not being ashamed of the parts she enjoyed while still acknowledging that it was trauma.

I imagine him being just a soft and supportive dom for her. Giving her orders, smacking her, punishing her, but all the while giving her so much support and encouragement in the form of "good girl"s and "you're taking this so well for me" and stuff like that. And then afterwards he would be KING of aftercare.

[ex-foster]

Marilyn Monroe was a foster child.

Sasha Gray was a foster child.

Both of these women became a sex symbol. Marilyn was a pin up model and famous movie star. Sasha was a porn star who was depicted in degrading scenes (and later spoke out against the porn industry she once advocated for. She has said she was coerced into the industry).

The foster care to sex trafficking pipeline has always been a problem. Girls that lack parents or a stable home life are especially vulnerable to sexual exploitation. In the age of the Internet and the porn industry however, the sadistic and misogynistic sexual abuse of women has become mainstream.

Girls age out of the foster care system and get sacrificed on the altar of pornography. Their rape is shared on Reddit subs under tags like "dead eyes" and "barely legal". Young boys consume porn and these scenes they watch become normalized. They adopt these sexual scripts as normal behaviour and they become the type of boys who think it's normal to choke, strangle, beat, degrade girls during sex.

Self proclaimed feminists defend the sex industry and dismiss the horrific cases of abuse in porn as outliers. They argue that "sex work is work" and that some women genuinely enjoy it. However, let me argue it this way. There is supply and demand. If the demand for prostitutes, porn stars or "sex workers" is high but the supply is low (meaning women don't want to do sex work), where will the supply come from? The answer is marginalized women. Women from foster care, homeless women, refugees, migrant women, racial minorities, substance dependant women.

And so, who will supply the demand for porn audiences who want to see taboo niche videos? What if the demand is for rough anal sex of a barely legal teen until she cries?

The recruitment of the sex industry is predatory. This is why sex trafficking victims are overwhelmingly women from foster care. When girls age out of care, they are disproportionately at risk for homelessness. Research the outcomes of foster kids.

[rapeculturerealities]

Dirty laundry piles up at Utah's anti-porn and anti-trafficking charities. | Cover Story | Salt Lake City Weekly

There are many forces behind the uptick in anti-porn laws in the U.S., and some of the more influential are based here in Utah. And many of these forces—which present themselves as "anti-porn" or "anti-trafficking" groups—are linked directly or indirectly to each other. Utah-based charities Fight the New Drug and the Malouf Foundation both at varying degrees have hands to play in the enterprise laid out above.

To begin, City Weekly inquiries yielded evidence of apparent connections to Tim Ballard, former CEO and founder of Operation Underground Railroad (OUR)—now called OUR Rescue—and the so-called "rescue operations" on which Angel Studios' motion picture Sound of Freedom is based. Ballard is implicated in many civil and criminal cases, including allegations of being a sexual abuser with ties to the rich and powerful of conservative Utah.

Ballard founded OUR to counter sex trafficking by engaging in vigilante-style, extrajudicial incursions into foreign countries—primarily in Latin America—to "save people." Now, he is being sued in federal district court by some of his victims, who allege that Ballard and his associates, Matt Cooper and Michael Porenta, actually engaged in human trafficking themselves.

Natasha Helfer is an AASECT-certified sex therapist based in Salt Lake City. She is also the founder of the Mormon Mental Health Association, a secular association of mental health professionals who specialize in treating Mormon clients. She was excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2021.

"With issues as severe as sex trafficking, these types of organizations—even if well-meaning—can perpetuate stereotypes, myths, and lies that end up hurting victims more than helping them," Helfer said.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jose Pagliery at NOTUS:

Rep. Matt Gaetz attended a drug-fueled sex party in 2017 with the 17-year-old girl at the center of the alleged sex trafficking scandal, according to legal documents filed to a Florida federal court shortly before midnight Thursday, which cite sealed affidavits from three eyewitness testimonies.

The minor, who was a junior in high school at the time, arrived in her mother’s car for a July 15, 2017, party at the Florida home of Chris Dorworth, a lobbyist and friend of Gaetz’s, according to a court filing written by defense attorneys who interviewed witnesses as part of an ongoing civil lawsuit Dorworth brought in 2023. The lobbyist claimed he had been unfairly dragged into the alleged sex trafficking scandal that has dogged Gaetz and his allies for years. Dorworth ultimately dropped the case, but lawyers filed these documents in an attempt to recoup attorneys fees for a lawsuit they say should never have been brought.

One eyewitness cited in the court filings, a young woman referred to as K.M., provided a sworn affidavit that claimed the teenage girl was naked, partygoers were there to “engage in sexual activities,” and “alcohol, cocaine, ecstasy … and marijuana” were present. The teenage girl was identified in the filings only as A.B. “The discovery taken in this case to date reflects that on Saturday, July 15, 2017 … Dorworth, hosted a party at his residence … with the following guests present: (1) A.B.; (2) K.M.; (3) B.G.; (4) Matt Gaetz,” lawyers wrote in the filing, also listing several others. The defense lawyers filed testimonies from those three women — who the attorneys say placed Gaetz at Dorworth’s house that night — under seal pending a judge’s approval to make the records public.

Additionally, Gaetz’s own ex-girlfriend — who was present at the party — provided testimony that lawyers say rebuts Dorworth’s claims that he was not there. NOTUS independently verified that Gaetz and one of the women who testified were previously involved in a relationship; she is only identified in the court filing by her initials, B.G.

The congressman’s ex-girlfriend’s eleventh hour testimony on Sept. 3 came just two days before Dorworth dropped his lawsuit, defense attorneys said in the filing. The defense lawyers also relied on Dorworth’s geolocated cell phone records, which showed that he communicated constantly with the congressman that day. The defense’s court filings show a hired digital forensic examiner identified Gaetz’s number, which has a Florida panhandle 850 area code and texted back and forth 30 times that day and then called Dorworth twice in the hours before the evening revelry. “B.G., another attendee at that party, confirmed A.B.’s testimony under penalty of perjury,” defense lawyers wrote.

This marks the first time that sworn testimony has been referenced in public court filings alleging that the congressman attended one of the long-rumored parties tied to an alleged underage sex scandal. Previous reports have revealed details of ex-politician and Gaetz friend Joel Greenberg’s confession letter that was never made public, which described how Gaetz would allegedly pay him to arrange several sexual encounters with young women — including a 17-year-old girl. Greenberg is serving an 11-year prison sentence for a list of charges, including fraud and sex trafficking with a child.

New filings reveal that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is at the center of a party he attended with a 17-year old girl in 2017 that featured drugs and sex.

See Also:

Daily Kos: Matt Gaetz attended sex party with minor, federal court filing alleges

[awkwardandeccentric]

“Hazbin Hotel fetishes abuse and doesn’t treat sex workers well!”

Angel is being trafficked. I cannot stress this enough. Angel is a trafficking victim. You’re not watching Avatar. You’re not watching Over the Garden Wall. You’re not watching Good Omens. It’s not subtle. It’s pretty fucking obvious. Amazon took a pan to your face repeatedly over this.

Even if we took out the owning of the souls bit (which should be enough of an argument), beating your employee into submission? Not giving any safe words? Not allowing breaks? Filming under the influence? Finding a vulnerable person (man in this case, but could be anyone) and love bombing them until they trust you and are in love with you only to pimp them out? That’s trafficking. That’s right out of the handbook. Angel is being trafficked.