As a toddler, I could play dress-up with the best of them. Almost as soon as I’d learned to walk I made it a practice of donning my grandmother’s high-heels and parading around the back patio, bottle-in-hand, likely with more grace and poise than I could muster now in such footwear. Like many other little girls, I’d watch my mother putting on her make-up and beg for her to share some lipstick or blush. Dressing up was a way to mirror the beauty of the women in my life, and the same is still true for many young girls.
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Why does our culture continue to raise men who think it is ok to buy sex?
One of the most troubling truths in the issue of sex trafficking is that the demand is seemingly endless. Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal business in the world, second only to drugs. The most agreed-upon statistics for the global profits earned from human trafficking (calculations seen in the 2005 report from the International Labour Office report by Patrick Besler) equal US $32 billion. Of that number, $28 billion comes from sex trafficking. The business runs with a backbone similar to any other market: supply and demand. Demand in this context is men who are willing to purchase. Back to the original point, there is a horribly high percentage of people in this world who see nothing wrong with buying sex.
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The sexual exploitation of children for profit is a horrible crime on the surface.
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Do you think awareness works?
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A recent episode of Prime Time Politics as presented by Georgia Public Broadcasting addressed the increasingly apparent issue of child welfare and human trafficking.
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