The PBS program NOW with Maria Hinojosa and David Brancaccio just posted this week’s story which is on child prostitution. From the site:
Living in the shadows of contemporary American society are tens of thousands of underage prostitutes–desperate, exploited kids robbed of their childhood and of hope. The Department of Justice says, on any given [...]
I can’t tell you how often I hear from youth workers across the country who explain that pimps and other sexual exploiters impress youth from group homes, treatment centers, homeless shelters and similar places where lots of youth are low or no income by getting the youth nice outfits, their hair done, their nails done [...]
Click on the button to hear a interview with me on XBN SWOP East Broadcast Network. We covered a lot of ground including why I started Rethink Resources, why adults struggle with supporting youth in the sex trade and how the rescue philosophy stops a lot of adults from welcoming youth as smart, capable young [...]
Fewer than 3,000 websites produce bulk of child porn (international) Fewer than 3,000 English-language websites produce the bulk of child pornography images, according to the first authoritative analysis of the scale of the problem, published today. The Internet Watch Foundation, which carried out the study, says an international effort to disrupt even a [...]
Inside Bay Area recently did a whole series of articles on teen prostitution in the East Bay Area of California.
Nonprofit caters to needs of sexually exploited youth
When Oakland police find young girls on the street involved in prostitution, one of the first things they do is call for a counselor from MISSSEY Inc. The [...]
I’ll be on XBN Sex Workers Outreach Project East radio show this Sunday May 11th at 6pm (EST) talking about my work and how the whole idea of “rescuing” youth in the sex trade is insulting and doesn’t work.
Click on the picture at the top of this post for the site where you can [...]
Thirty people attended my training last Saturday May 3rd on Youth and the Sex Trade 101 and everyone was excited to learn as much as they could.
We covered a lot of ground in a short three hours starting with the words that youth (especially youth in the sex trade) use to describe the sex trade [...]
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