And what word is that word? Sex Trafficking. Think about it. When you hear the word sex trafficking, do you think about some poor girl in a foreign country forced by her circumstances into porn/prostitution commercial rape? I’ll bet you do, because that’s the image we’ve been fed, essentially forever. Did you know that commercial rape is a 9.5 BILLION dollar a year industry in THIS COUNTRY? Did you know the average victim age is 13-14? Did you know that one in three teen runaways will be lured into commercial rape within 48 hours of leaving home? These aren’t poor kids “over there,” you know in those fucked up countries where something bad is always happening. Nope, this is right here in the United States.
Top Twenty Cities for Human Trafficking
Houston • El Paso • Los Angeles • Atlanta • Chicago • Charlotte • Miami • Las Vegas • New York • Long Island • New Orleans • Washington, D.C. • Philadelphia • Phoenix • Richmond • San Diego• San Francisco • St Louis • Seattle • Tampa
Were you surprised by any of those? Richmond? Seriously? Charlotte? Who’da thunk? Yeah, there are some surprises there, for those who aren’t paying attention. I live in Atlanta. I can leave my house right now and find a prostituted girl in less than thirty minutes. I bet you could too, if you’re paying attention.
Of course, it’s easy to dismiss prostitution, after all, most people don’t buy sex, or do they? What about the other arm of commercial rape? That which we call porn. I won’t go into all lamentations about the horrors of porn, after all, we know them, don’t we? We know that most of the women participating in commercial rape have been sexually abused and are addicted to one or more drugs and/or alcohol. But there’s that little word, consent. Oh yes. They consent. So let’s talk about consent, shall we? Can someone who has been beaten, raped and strung out on drugs, really consent to anything? What about the notion that commercial rape is just like any other job? We even use that despicable euphemism, sex work, as though commercial rape could ever be defined in such a way. Even a despised employer like Wal-Mart couldn’t get away with treating their workers the way women in commercial rape are treated. What if Wal-Mart took advantage of dope sick workers and forced them to work in violation of acceptable work standards? Yeah, Wal-Mart’s been boycotted to hell and back for considerably less.
And you might say, oh, it’s just sex. Have you looked at porn lately? I know I hadn’t, and it has been an eye-opening experience. Did you know that 40% of commercial rape videos feature ATM. What’s ATM? Trust it has nothing to do with a cash machine, it’s ass-to-mouth. In other words, anal sex followed by fellatio with no washing in between. Does that sound like “just sex” to you? Could Wal-Mart force their workers to literally eat shit? Do I have to tell you how lethal such a practice can be? Is there any employer in this country who could get away with such a thing? I would say, no. Yet, this is routine in today’s video commercial rape. Why is that okay?
Things that used to be ‘fringe” are mainstream in a way you could not imagine. Almost all video commercial rape features violence, some of it extreme violence. Such as deliberately ejaculating in a woman’s eyes. I just want you think about how painful, not to mention dangerous such an activity can be. And think about the person who is sitting at home masturbating to such a visual. Do you want to be within a hundred yards of such a person? I know damned well I wouldn’t. After all, they wouldn’t make this if it wasn’t profitable. The producers of commercial rape videos are very clear on the fact that they make these videos for men who hate women. That the typical consumer is getting revenge for all the women he couldn’t have. And let us not forget, these women are raped, brutalized and drug-addled in the extreme.
Now back to that word sex trafficking. The typical sex trafficking victim in this country isn’t from some godforsaken foreign place. They’re typically from neighborhoods like yours and mine. We can’t dismiss this as something that’s somebody else’s problem. We have to make a decision, what do we care more about, our children or a porn sick freak’s ability to beat off to violence and debasement? We can no longer dismiss this as something that happens to other people, or buy into claims that it’s “sex work” and the myth of consent. That dialogue only benefits the rapists and the procurers, nobody else. It certainly doesn’t help prostituted women and children. You may choose to ignore the issue, but you can no longer say you didn’t know.
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You always cut through the crap, Roslyn.
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Disturbing but important article. Thanks for this.
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Very good post. It is disturbing, but it’s the truth. A lot of people don’t think of US teens when they think of sex trafficking; in fact they think that most of them are foreigners who were brought to this country by their pimps. That does happen, but runaway teens often wind up being trafficked. I live about 40 minutes away from El Paso and I used to live near Phoenix. People in Arizona sometimes call Phoenix the “kidnap capital” because a lot of young women/teenagers get kidnapped and forced into commercial rape.
I do think those sex pozzies should ask themselves if their “empowering” porn and “empowering” sex lives are worth the rape of women and children. I really hate those people, especially when they defend porn as “feminist” and call women who object “anti-sex prudes.” It’s so disgusting to defend men who hate and rape women and call it feminist. And they always have their token porn-stars/prostitutes (who are usually race and/or class privileged) to preach about how great the industry is. Last time I was in Arizona, the legislature passed a law saying that “message” websites had to have documentations proving that the girls were 18 and that they consented to have their photos on the website. It was basically an effort to put a dent in sex trafficking. Of course, the sex pozzies protested it and some called it “anti-feminist”. Um, what about all the anti-abortion laws the Republican-controlled legislature passed? Why weren’t the sex pozzies protesting those? Plus, you’d think they’d like that law since it mentions “consent”. It was one of the few laws Arizona passed that I thought were a good idea.
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More from my greater rad-fem consciousness.