Ordering a Person for Sex Online Is as Easy as Ordering a Pizza In the digital age, it is easier than ever before to buy and sell women and children for sex—frankly, it’s as easy as ordering a pizza. Sex traffickers can remain anonymous and make a lot more money,…
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Trafficking in Persons Report 2010
The State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons (“TIP”) Report is a good place to start if you’d like to familiarize yourself with human trafficking generally and sex trafficking in particular. Sex trafficking is labeled as a “severe form” of human trafficking by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. “Sex trafficking comprises…
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Porn and Sex Trafficking: Is There a Connection?
Is there a connection between porn and sex trafficking? We know sex trafficking is a horrifying injustice that affects millions of women and children around the world. Most of us feel shock and outrage when we hear about it. Pornography, on the other hand, passes as “adult entertainment.” While we…
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The Connections Between Pornography and Sex Trafficking
This post has been updated as of October 2020. We often hear today about the horrors of sex trafficking, overseas and in the United States. We are appalled at those who would hold women and children as sex slaves, deny them their human rights, and make them mere objects for…
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Bake Sales, Sex Trafficking, and Pornography
It was a typical Friday morning walking into the Covenant Eyes‘ world headquarters offices. I needed my usual caffeine fix, so I headed to the break room to grab a cup of coffee (the Christian’s drug of choice). Only this time, things were different: I was greeted by three bright-eyed teenage…
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250,000 American Kids Victims of Sex Trafficking Every Year
Covenant Eyes Radio – Episode 81 [display_podcast] Every year, over a quarter of a million American kids fall victim to commercial sexual exploitation. This outnumbers international kids in the U.S. 11 to 1. Today we speak with Steve Wagner, President of the Renewal Forum and former Director of the Human…
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The Sex Trafficking Issue No One Is Talking About
Episode 140 [powerpress] Sex trafficking is one of the great social justice issues of our time, but unfortunately society largely ignores how pornography is related to trafficking. We interviewed Liz Yore, Oprah Winfrey’s former legal child advocate, to get her perspective. Show Notes: 0:34 – Introduction to Liz Yore 1:28 –…
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An Open Letter to the Victims and Survivors of Human Trafficking
To every man, woman, and child sold into sexual slavery, Just a few years ago, I didn’t think twice about you. See, I’ve grown up living in a “bubble,” always protected by those around me, with not a single worry about where my next meal would come from. My friends…
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Pornhub and Sex Trafficking: Do You Know the Facts?
We typically think of sex trafficking as something that happens far away in developing countries, but it’s happening right in our backyard. It’s happening on our computer screens, and a big culprit is the mainstream pornography distributor Pornhub. Let’s take a look at the connection between Pornhub and sex trafficking…
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$28-Billion-Crime: New film shows the dark connection between sex addiction and sex trafficking
I stood before a less-than-captive audience at the local community college talking about the subject of pornography. I had been called in as a “special lecturer” for a required Ethics class to discuss the moral problems associated with porn. In order to wake the class from their usual slumber, I…