To learn more about what is going on between Pornhub and sex trafficking, we encourage you to read Part 1 here. Porn fuels sex trafficking. But what fuels porn? Lust is one obvious answer. But there’s a second culprit that’s equally to blame, particularly when we think about the porn…
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pureJUSTICE Internship Program
In 2008 we launched the pureJUSTICE summer internship for college students. This eight-week, paid internship focuses on developing young leaders as advocates for purity and justice through spiritual formation and professional development. They spend the summer working with pureHOPE staff to research the issues of pornography and sex trafficking, to…
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Rape for Profit: New Documentary Shows the Faces of Sex Trafficking
“Prostitution is the main act. Porn is the dress rehearsal.” – Victor Malarek Sex trafficking may be the social justice issue of this generation. From major cities to small town America, grassroots movements have sprung up to raise awareness, protect the victims, and prosecute the oppressors. But the icons of…
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Sex Trafficking & Sex Addiction: A Documentary Addresses Two Forms of Slavery
There are millions of sex slaves in the world today. Millions. Anywhere from 14,000 to 17,000 individual are transported to the United States every year, most of them for the purposes of sexual servitude and forced prostitution. Anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 Americans are undergoing the same slavery, many of…
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How We Talk About Porn Matters
We all know that statistics can be used to tell just about any story you want. One of the reasons we learn to be discerning about polls and surveys is that the answers people give depend on how the question is asked. A brand new national survey* of 2,518 people…
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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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How One Organization Fights Porn by Helping Trafficked Victims
This January at Covenant Eyes, we highlight human trafficking awareness. Many do not realize there is a close connection between porn and human trafficking. In over 20 years of helping people on the journey away from porn, we have found that highlighting porn’s connection with sex trafficking gives a lot…
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The Candy Shop: A Sex-Trade Fairytale
“If there wasn’t such a need, there wouldn’t be so much business, now, would there?” A fairytale about child sex trafficking? Yes, a fairytale. That’s exactly what The Candy Shop is: a short fantasy film that aims to fuel the growing anti-slavery movement in Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta is the number…
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Confronting Porn With Justice: A Conversation With Benjamin Bull
We have written before about the connection between porn and human trafficking. It’s estimated that there are 40.3 million victims of human trafficking globally, and it’s estimated that forced labor and human trafficking is a 150 billion-dollar industry worldwide. So what can we do? Covenant Eyes has invited a number…
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The Sound of Freedom and the Problem of Pornography
The Covenant Eyes Podcast recently sat down with Operation Underground Railroad founder, Tim Ballard. Tim’s story has been dramatized in the new blockbuster movie, The Sound of Freedom. In our conversation with Tim, we learned about the sex trafficking industry, its connection to pornography, and what people can do to…