Sex+Money and the sex trafficking pandemic: How did we get here and now what?
November 30, 2011 - Like this? Subscribe to get instant updates.
The newest documentary on sex trafficking in the US, Sex+Money, investigates and verifies the unbelievable depth of the human sex slavery in our country. Executive producer, Morgan Perry, has coordinated the filming, along with the interviews of over 75 convicted pimps, victims, law enforcement officials and human services representatives to create a compelling look inside the fastest growing criminal enterprise on the planet.
In an interview with Miss Perry, her passion for the cause of stopping all sex slavery, including the heinous crime of children forced into prostitution, came across very strongly. She attended the University of the Nations and majored in Social Justice. In 2007, she was part of an educational program that toured 20 countries in nine months, closely examining the social justice issues in each nation. The heartbreaking thread that was common to all regions was the immense issue of children being sold as objects of rape by strangers numerous times each night. In most places, the child prostitution was blatant and easily accessed.
Perry and four other students were galvanized into action. They published a book, Sex+Money: A Global Search for Human Worth, then went on to uncover the lesser known problem of sex trafficking in the US. The result is the Sex+Money: A National Search for Human Worth documentary, which was released on DVD in August 2011. The film team is currently on tour to all 50 states to screen the video, help raise awareness of the sex trafficking issue, and raise funds for StreetLight USA, a residential aftercare program for girls recovered from sex slavery.
Perry's findings of the current status of US sex slavery:
Additionally, Perry is part of PhotogenX, an organization that developed a Discipleship Training program to use photography to compel cultural change and create abolitionists who are equipped to challenge the social injustices of our day.
Readers are encouraged to purchase the Sex+Money DVD or attend a local screening of the film to show their support for Morgan and her team, and to make their own statement that sex slavery will no longer be tolerated. Screenings of Sex+Money in Phoenix are December 3 and 5.
Posted on behalf of StreetLight USA.
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In an interview with Miss Perry, her passion for the cause of stopping all sex slavery, including the heinous crime of children forced into prostitution, came across very strongly. She attended the University of the Nations and majored in Social Justice. In 2007, she was part of an educational program that toured 20 countries in nine months, closely examining the social justice issues in each nation. The heartbreaking thread that was common to all regions was the immense issue of children being sold as objects of rape by strangers numerous times each night. In most places, the child prostitution was blatant and easily accessed.
Perry's findings of the current status of US sex slavery:
- Recruitment of girls into forced child prostitution happens in very public places such as malls and bus stops.
- Most common venues for the girls to be working: Street prostitution, massage parlors, escort services, truck stops and airports
- Pimps call local high schools "buffets" due to the high number of available vulnerable girls
- Pimps send teen boys and girls into the local high schools to "befriend" the lonely and disenfranchised students and invite them to an event (pimp party) where they will be "valued and included"--often meaning given drugs or alcohol and raped and then enslaved.
- The proliferation of internet pornography and the incredible ease of access to it
- Prostitution becoming a high-tech operation with many of the contacts made via internet.
- False assumptions: Young girls on the streets, in porn pictures, or in sex ads are over 18, choose to be in the sex trades, or they are not worthy of intervention because they are "prostitutes".
- The breakdown of the family. Over 90% of children who end up with a pimp have already been abused or neglected. Many have been sexually abused in foster care, by family members, or close acquaintances. These victims become runaways to escape the pain, but are picked up by pimps within 48 hours on the street.
- Because of the prior abuse and the beatings and threats from the pimps, the girls often feel helpless to leave or contact authorities.
- State laws and law enforcement agencies often vilify and punish the children who are sex slaves and let the pimps and johns get off with minor consequences.
Additionally, Perry is part of PhotogenX, an organization that developed a Discipleship Training program to use photography to compel cultural change and create abolitionists who are equipped to challenge the social injustices of our day.
Readers are encouraged to purchase the Sex+Money DVD or attend a local screening of the film to show their support for Morgan and her team, and to make their own statement that sex slavery will no longer be tolerated. Screenings of Sex+Money in Phoenix are December 3 and 5.
Posted on behalf of StreetLight USA.
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Morgan Perry (left) is on a crusade to expose sex slavery in America through her film, Sex+Money.
Credits:
Sex+Money team
Slideshow: Sex+Money team
Morgan Perry (left) is on a crusade to expose sex slavery in America through her film, Sex+Money.
Credits:
Sex+Money team
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