| The 2023 state legislative session is the new frontier for combatting sexual exploitation across the U.S. NCOSE identified 43 states with pending anti-trafficking and child protection legislation designed to protect vulnerable people and youth. Lurking among practical legislative solutions are bills that would lead to greater harm for the most vulnerable in our communities—often under the guise of protecting them. |
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📣 ACTION: Ask your legislators to NOT decriminalize exploiters! Legalizing sex buying, pimping, and brothel keeping is NOT the answer to ending sexual exploitation. Yet, that is the solution being proposed in states across the U.S., including Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. If you are a U.S. resident, please take 30 SECONDS to contact your state legislators, informing them of the dangers of decriminalizing sexual exploiters! |
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| Rachel Moran is the author of the bestselling book "Paid For – My Journey Through Prostitution," regarded by legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon as “the best work by anyone on prostitution ever.” Published in 2013, this book has been changing hearts and minds for a decade. Don't miss this discussion with Rachel about "Paid For" and the impact this book has had on the world. |
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| All arrangements had been made for the wedding. The reception hall had been booked. Guest lists had been drawn up. But one thing was missing. Or rather . . . one person. The bride was gone.
Lee Yu-Jung took her own life before her wedding could take place. It wasn’t because she got cold feet. It wasn’t because she was being forced to marry a man she didn’t love—or any other Hollywood reason that might prelude a bride-to-be’s suicide in a tv drama. The real reason? A colleague of Lee’s had secretly filmed her in the changing room of the hospital where they both worked.
Lee Yu-Jung was a victim of video voyeurism—one of the many different types of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA). It is important to understand the various forms of IBSA, so that we can recognize victimization when it happens, and build solutions that successfully address the wide range of ways IBSA can occur. Learn about 5 types of IBSA here. |
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