Fighting to end Sex-trafficking is a global fight. People from every walk of life and beliefs are in the fight. Jada Pinkett Smith has started filming a documentary for CNN (see Madame Noire article). She talks about her perception having been changed after meeting three women at a Wellspring facility. Our beliefs lead to how we see things. For years we have been fed the lie that women who are involved with prostitution want to be.
Our perception is askew. Anyone should have the right to be FREE. The right to chose to not take a job. To be paid for a job. Not to be forced to have sex. These are fundamental rights. In the US alone the Human Trafficking is a $9.8 BILLION industry and growing. Why sell just drugs and guns, which can only be sold once, when you can sell a woman or child over and over. At least 100,000 U.S. children are used in prostitution every year in America. (National Center For Missing and Exploited Children) and the average age a child enters prostitution is 13 years old. (U.S. Department of Justice website) No little girl grows up hoping to be a prostitute. No little girl!
So what about our young women? Jada has found that some women think they can enter a life of selling their bodies, control it, and make money. Good money. Controlling this lifestyle is like holding a rattlers tail; the snake will still bite. Once again women should still have the right to say no. The men (and women) who prey on others for their own gain in the human trafficking industry are despicable but as a society we are encouraging it. Young girls want to look and be like the models and actors that flaunt promiscuity and glorify it. Young women believe they can control a rattler by holding its tail.
What we are teaching our girls affects their perception of what is okay, even cool. Jada Pinkett Smith was told by a young woman that "she just wanted to be an independent chick. She just wanted to make that money. She wanted to be that girl she saw in videos. She wanted to be that girl she heard in songs. She said it makes it okay. She was like, even in manipulating men into giving you money for your body, it’s okay because of what the music tells us, it’s almost expected." Jada quote from Madam Noire article.
I look forward to seeing this documentary. I hope it will cause many to think about what, as consumers, we are willing to view, listen to, and spend money on. Producers, writers, singers, and actors will go where the money is. ..... but then again isn't that what human trafficking is all about???.....Money?!
What is your perception? I hope this article increases your understanding. Please share it. Lets get the word out and grow awareness; it is a crucial in this war wage for true freedom for all.
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