TSMissJasmine
11-19-2009, 08:21 AM
While all you closeted butt-nuts are sitting around jerking off to porn while judging sex workers and porn performers, heres something for you to get edumicated about...
Not all prostitutes want to be rescued. Consensual and successful sex workers do exist.
It is always tricky when entering into debates about human trafficking, especially with rescue organizations and conservative women movements that are for the most part anti-prostitution. When the Washington Post article, “Human Trafficking Evokes Outrage, Little Evidence” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/22/AR2007092201401.html
Washington Post Article was published September of ‘07, the women’s movements with radical ideas even outside of feminism were up in arms, and without data to back up their claims.
When looking at the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA or HR 3887), one must investigate its success, its hidden agendas as well as the driving force of the movement. If you look at Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decision to outsource Ketchum as a coalition effort to find trafficked victims, the coalition included former heads of the Funds for a Conversative Majority and the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. TVPRA is driven by The Concerned Women for America, a conservative think tank group which is commonly known for their anti-prostitution agenda. View Concerned Women for America Page
The right-wing-backed human trafficking movement, part of the “anti-prostitution industrial complex,” deliberately blurs the line between sex work and sex slavery to further its moralistic agenda and line its pockets. On their own website, CWA’s mission statement claims; “to protect and promote Biblical values among all citizens - first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society - thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation.” This organization is Pro-Live, Anti-Homosexual Marriage, Anti Migration (Keep the borders secure!) and basically a famous fundamentalist feminist organization thats lines its own pockets with manipulating the (Bush) administration.
While the government has spent over 500 million dollars in searching for Trafficking victims since 2000, they have brought a total of 148 federal cases nationwide. A far cry from the overestimated 50,000 alleged victims. Last year alone, HHS paid $3.4 million dollars in new street outreach awards to 22 groups nationwide.
The problem is trafficking has received far more attention than crimes such as domestic violence of which there are hundreds of thousands of documented victims every year. These conservative organizations aren’t rescuing domestically abused women at all. Money given to rescue groups for them find trafficking victims, which they cannot. Or for groups like Kechum to train people to train people to train people to counsel potential victims. If you want trafficking victims to come forward, the only way is to give Amnesty for all trafficked victims. The far more common trafficking situation is women trafficked into household, farm and sweatshop work which, not sexual trafficking. Trafficking laws are being manipulated within our very own legal system to arrest sex workers and build convictions. They do not seem to be helping women who are victimized in any capacity. Unionization and/or decriminalization seem to be the answer…
Not all prostitutes want to be rescued. Consensual and successful sex workers do exist.
It is always tricky when entering into debates about human trafficking, especially with rescue organizations and conservative women movements that are for the most part anti-prostitution. When the Washington Post article, “Human Trafficking Evokes Outrage, Little Evidence” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/22/AR2007092201401.html
Washington Post Article was published September of ‘07, the women’s movements with radical ideas even outside of feminism were up in arms, and without data to back up their claims.
When looking at the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA or HR 3887), one must investigate its success, its hidden agendas as well as the driving force of the movement. If you look at Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decision to outsource Ketchum as a coalition effort to find trafficked victims, the coalition included former heads of the Funds for a Conversative Majority and the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. TVPRA is driven by The Concerned Women for America, a conservative think tank group which is commonly known for their anti-prostitution agenda. View Concerned Women for America Page
The right-wing-backed human trafficking movement, part of the “anti-prostitution industrial complex,” deliberately blurs the line between sex work and sex slavery to further its moralistic agenda and line its pockets. On their own website, CWA’s mission statement claims; “to protect and promote Biblical values among all citizens - first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society - thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation.” This organization is Pro-Live, Anti-Homosexual Marriage, Anti Migration (Keep the borders secure!) and basically a famous fundamentalist feminist organization thats lines its own pockets with manipulating the (Bush) administration.
While the government has spent over 500 million dollars in searching for Trafficking victims since 2000, they have brought a total of 148 federal cases nationwide. A far cry from the overestimated 50,000 alleged victims. Last year alone, HHS paid $3.4 million dollars in new street outreach awards to 22 groups nationwide.
The problem is trafficking has received far more attention than crimes such as domestic violence of which there are hundreds of thousands of documented victims every year. These conservative organizations aren’t rescuing domestically abused women at all. Money given to rescue groups for them find trafficking victims, which they cannot. Or for groups like Kechum to train people to train people to train people to counsel potential victims. If you want trafficking victims to come forward, the only way is to give Amnesty for all trafficked victims. The far more common trafficking situation is women trafficked into household, farm and sweatshop work which, not sexual trafficking. Trafficking laws are being manipulated within our very own legal system to arrest sex workers and build convictions. They do not seem to be helping women who are victimized in any capacity. Unionization and/or decriminalization seem to be the answer…