already has the strong bullshitting skills necessary to flourish in anti-trafficking, a realm where facts don’t seem to matter and scare-tactics do most of the talking. Due to the massive amou...
Great. Maybe some day, when your blood-soaked head hits the floor after being beaten severely by a man whose ultimate turn-on is buying women, you'll think of just how liberated your were that yo...
@ disfasia The FBI claims that the figure is the average in the United States, and this blog post debunks that. Neither FBI nor I are discussing the international average.
The writer of this piece sounds completely uninformed and colonial. Anyone working in the field--and clearly you have not--will say that age is very difficult to gage. Most poor people around the...
I'm not sure it is a "lie", but it is certainly untrue. "Lie" implies intention to deceive. That may or may not be the case among the multitude of voices that parrot this trope. I am very familia...
my beloved NPR fell for the story ~ including tossing in a quote containing the oft used bullshit about the average age of entry into prostitution is 13. It is a lie, people! But just like the
move even within the typically-dubious realm of sex-trafficking statistics (the idea that the average victim is first-trafficked at 12-years-old is also suspect). None of these stats are
bold move even within the typically-dubious realm of sex-trafficking statistics (the idea that the average victim is first-trafficked at 12-years-old is also suspect). None of these stats are
of what’s wrong with these numbers, I recommend reading Emi Koyama’s blog post, “The Average Age of Entry Into Prostitution is NOT 13.” It’s one of the first pieces that I looked at as...
Jenna Novak from the Polaris Project (an anti-trafficking, anti-prostitution lobbying group), had come from the lower 48 to do most of the presenting. She mostly offered the typicalinformation....