Chris Allen, founder of the Innocence Atlanta campaign, defines sex trafficking as “Fraud, Force, and Coercion” (Spornhauer, 2011). This definition aptly places the blame of sex trafficking upon the johns and pimps who profit from the use of girls for sex. In most cases, however, the girls being trafficked are looked upon as the vermin of society. They are shunned and arrested and used up and tossed aside without regard to their humanity or rights, while the johns and pimps who degrade them get, not only anonymity, but also leniency for the …

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Let me get straight to the point here. I’ve had enough. There are days when I feel completely worn out by what I see in the news and days when I feel ready to scream and fight. I completely understood what Eve Ensler meant in her article “Over It” that appeared on the Huffington Post yesterday. I’m angry as hell and I’m not at all …

“He said … A man’s home is his castleIt always has been and so it remains…But he holds the keys in a fist of rageHis home is his castleAnd mine is a cage.”
The recent video posted on YouTube by 23-year-old Hillary Adams shows that her father, Judge William Adams, beat her with a belt and admonished her with explicit language has, like it or not, taken all who viewed it behind closed doors, and taken all beyond hearing the refrain from Faith Hill’s song, out of the darkness and into …

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I remember the first time I visited prison. I was nervous that night and my mind was racing with scenes from movies movies of barbed wire and hardened criminals. As the guard slammed and locked the gate behind me, I really had to wonder if I had made the right decision. I was going to begin volunteering for the group Convicted Women Against Abuse (CWAA) – a …

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I got a Kindle this spring and have had a chance to do a lot of summer reading for pleasure.  One of the great things about owning an electronic book is that if one is in a quandary about what to read next, one can instantaneously search what other e-books have been popular with the millions of readers who own one too.  That is where I found Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I …

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Marvell Scott, Reese On The Radio file photoYes, another clear-cut case of sexual assault has a man walking free without jail time. The accused pedophile, Marvell Scott, left his job as a sportscaster for WABC one year ago to return to being a full-time doctor. This week, he has pleaded guilty of misdemeanor for endangering the welfare of a child, a 14-year-old girl who has accused him of rape. Scott did not plead guilty to …

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Image from CARA-Seattle.orgDuring the Victorian Era, medical institutions all over the world established that women were inherently fragile and emotional creatures and that it had nothing to do with the fact that they were drowning in the suffocating waters of patriarchy that condemned them to the domestic spheres of their existence.
Depression over not having a voice or the power necessary to govern their lives, their homes, or their bodies was defined by the medical industry as …

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The Village Voice would like to convince us that sex trafficking is no big deal. At least not the sex trafficking that is occurring through their online Backpage classified network, a venue that reaps them millions in profits each year.
The Voice’s Backpage has been proven to advertise sex trafficked girls and women. In other words, sex slavery. Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher called them out on this practice via their DNA foundation and Real Men Campaign. …

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In an article published by The Daily Beast titled The Problem with Rape Prosecutions, Alan Dershowitz, a writer and law professor at Brooklyn College suggests that one of the ways the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape case went wrong was that the woman allegedly raped by him was not publicly outed. If she had, then those who knew her — neighbors, friends, family — could have revealed personal information about …

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In the last few weeks I’ve learned a number of valuable lessons. Among them:
NYPD officers Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata leave Manhattan Supreme Court.1) Apparently if you are poor, you should not expect to be taken seriously if you accuse someone who is not poor, of sexually assaulting you (or trying to).
2) Similarly, if you are powerless, you should not expect …