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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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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Day 12: The Connections Between Porn and Sex Trafficking
Yesterday we read about how pornography impacts our views of women and hurts the performer. Today we’re going to take this to its logical conclusion: pornography feeds into sex trafficking. Pornography comes from the Greek words porne, meaning “prostituted woman” or “prostitution”, and the word graphos, meaning “writings.” If we can…
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4 Secrets the Porn Industry Hopes You Never Find Out
Porn’s power is largely based on the element of fantasy. Whatever you lust for, you can pretty much find it. All those things you’d thought you’d try or acts you think might satisfy you are available at a click. And because these things play out on the screen in front…
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5 Ways to Serve the Sexually Broken
When someone mentions missions, there are usually a few thoughts that come to mind: Perhaps that is a shallow misrepresentation of how some people view missions. For many, though, it is a sad reality. Missions is nothing more than travel—with a little Jesus. But, if we see sexual brokenness as…
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Renting Lacy – Book Review
by Christie Arnold Renting Lacy: A Story of America’s Prostituted Children provides a realistic and heart-wrenching look into the underground world of child sex trafficking in the United States. Author Linda Smith is a former congresswoman and founder of Shared Hope International, which works to eradicate sex trafficking and commercial…
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3 Ugly Facts About the Porn Industry
Why do women get into the porn industry? Dr. Sharon Mitchell co-founded the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, also called AIM. For about 20 years she was a porn actress and director herself, and after opening her clinic, saw well over 1000 porn stars every month for STD testing, so…
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How I Finally Broke Free from My 30-Year Addiction to Porn
The year 2004 began very bitter-sweetly. My addiction to pornography was no longer a secret. That first look at porn at age 12 and the 30 years of addiction that followed had imploded on me. My wife had discovered what she suspected. I was visiting numerous porn sites and was…
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Is Watching Porn Normal?
Statistics show that watching porn is extremely common—but does that make it normal? Two-thirds of men regularly consume pornography along with a third of women. So it is true that plenty of normal people watch porn. (Check out Covenant Eyes Porn Stats) The Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard observed, “There is…