Back to Our Beginning: Rampant Sex Tourism in Jamaica Compromises Youth Safety

Posted by: Clare on 5/4/2012 | 0 Comments
In our 2007 report on sex trafficking markets around the world, DEMAND, sex tourism was identified as the major driving force for sex trafficking in Jamaica. Five years later, as we visit our partners in Negril, Jamaica we see not much has changed. Young girls receiving residential services at our partner’s safe house came to Negril from all over the island. The reason: Negril is a major tourist destination and it is believed to be a place where Jamaicans can make money. Unfortunately, traffickers and facilitators also go Negril to make money, by exploiting young girls and boys through the commercial sex trade.


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Maelie could tell you how it happens...

Posted by: Clare on 3/6/2012 | 0 Comments
She wasn't grabbed and thrown in the trunk of his car.  She hadn't run away from home in search of thrills on the street.  No, she was lured away...charmed away...friended away.  Read more...
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"The Life": What Circumstances Walked Leah and her Sister into this Living Terror?

Posted by: Clare on 2/8/2012 | 0 Comments
She was just 12 years old when she was led into "the life" by her 14-year-old half-sister.  After several horrible weeks, she was rescued by police officers -- they found her sister in a hotel room, engaged in a sex act with a man, with Leah naked and crouched in a corner, crying hysterically.
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Purchasing Power: Why Do Johns Buy Sex?

Posted by: Taryn on 10/14/2011 | 0 Comments

A recent study, “Comparing Sex Buyers with Men Who Don’t Buy Sex,”  reveals the differences between men who buy sex (johns) and those who don’t (non-sex buyers), and the results are astonishing. This study takes a hard look at the characteristics of johns and their non-sex buying counterparts. The honest and graphic accounts of the john’s experiences purchasing sex may be shocking, but it could also be exactly what the anti-sex trafficking world needs to end modern-day slavery.

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Too cool for school? Not John!

Posted by: Taryn on 6/5/2011 | 0 Comments

Many experts say demand drives the sex trafficking industry and that ‘John schools’ are a possible solution to minimizing this force. This blog examines studies for and against the idea that “John schools” are the key to ending this horrendous industry. 

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Lawrence Taylor: Busted, Not Broken

Posted by: Taryn on 3/30/2011 | 4 Comments

Lawrence Taylor gets a mere 6 years of probation for soliciting sex with an underage girl.  In an interview with Fox News Insider, he gives us insights into a buyer’s attitude towards prostitution saying “I’m not the cause of prostitution,” while we say, oh yes you are.

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Why So Young? — Why the average age a child is first exploited through prostitution is 13

Posted by: Taryn on 3/14/2011 | 0 Comments
To understand why the average age of entry into prostitution is so young, we must understand the strategy used by pimps.  In this blog entry, Jessi Bell analyzes this strategy to help us further understand this "lucrative business" full of seduction, manipulation, and control.
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Battle of the Sexes: The Debate for Equal Gender Representation

Posted by: Taryn on 2/15/2011 | 5 Comments
Clay Chapman debates the importance of engaging male activists in the fight against domestic minor sex trafficking and provides practical solutions for men looking to get involved.
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Craig – The Most Successful Pimp in the World

Posted by: Taryn on 8/17/2010 | 0 Comments
Shared Hope International founder, Linda Smith poses some interesting discussions about an internet service we all know and use. Craigslist is the giant in the nascent online classifieds industry. Ever the opportunists, child predators have spotted the potential of Craigslist’s “adult services” page and the website has become a bustling marketplace for the buying and selling of our kids for sex.
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The Swedish Approach to Prostitution, Part I

Posted by: Taryn on 3/31/2010 | 0 Comments
For the past eleven years, Sweden has taken a unique approach to prostitution.  In 1999, the Swedish government passed a law making it a crime to pay for sex.  The selling of sex remains legal but people who pay for sex are charged with a crime.
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