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HOW "END DEMAND" REALLY WORKS

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fIuMBDLOAQ https://www.demandabolition.org/blog/ending-the-sex-trade-starts-with-holding-buyers-accountable/ For those of you watching the upswing of the "end demand" campaign - I would like you to note a few things.   In 1980 when Linda Lovelace came forward to say she'd been forced to film "Deep Throat" by her pimp holding a gun to her off camera  on a mob financed adult film set where no one stepped up to help her - suddenly we see the Meese Report coming out trying to stamp out porn NOT the situations that allowed her to be forced on that film.  Did it work?  Did porn go away?  Hardly. If anything, it's now everywhere right?   I've seen how Prohibition led to the speakeasy's and Al Capone became a rich man selling bootleg liquor.  Did Prohibition stop drinking? Hardly. Our program, www.sexworkersanonymous.com has been effectively helping men and women leave the sex industry

LETTER TO GLAMOUR MAGAZINE

Dear Glamour: In response to the "No Such Thing" campaign, the term "prostitute" while sex for money is still illegal in this country is STILL a legal term.  Please allow me to introduce myself.  I'm the founder of this very movement with respect to sex trafficking.  Please check the news clips at www.hightechmadam.com  The news clip for 1984 about my arrest where it says I was "operating  brothel" is not the story.  Yes I had a warehouse next to the police station that was equipped with very high tech security - but the reason for that is because it was the first safe house for adult trafficking  victims in the USA.  I had put a woman in the warehouse because her pimp had broken her arm and nose as well as blacked both her eyes.  Angry, he tipped off the cops that there was a "brothel" operating.  When the police arrived, yes the woman was  wearing her PJ's because it was midnight and she was sleeping.  She also had the arm cast on and

LETTER TO MALIKA SAAR

When you're spear heading a campaign that stopped arresting juvenile prostitutes - you also stopped mandatory HIV/AIDS testing that prostitutes are required to get when arrested.  Because of your campaign, there are no statistics for HIV for juvenile prostitutes for 2015 available.  Nothing to contrast with any other rates of HIV to see if the number is growing or lessening.  Nothing which can be used to even help get an estimate done so any grants can be applied for in order to do outreach. I've been wondering to myself for a while now "who is trying to cover up the HIV rates in prostitutes?" and now I know. I hope you're happy with yourself Ms. Saar.  http://traffickingandprostitutionservices.blogspot.com/2015/11/charlie-sheen-and-hiv-infection-of.html  The reason why I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off for a while now knocking on any door that I can on behalf of these women is because everyone is just acting like they don't

JUGGLING THE NUMBERS

In 1988, Joe Conforte, the man who owned the Mustang Ranch legal brothel in Nevada, decided he wanted to expand the brothels into California, and further into the larger cities of Nevada.  At that time they were still only located in the small rural towns they're in now and this was long before Dennis Hof had even bought his first brothel.  At that time, I think there was maybe three brothels in the whole state, or the whole  USA for that matter, if I remember correctly. Now HIV/AIDS was raging at the time.  Certainly not a good time to be talking about expanding brothels right?  Depends on how you market it.  I heard Joe had plunked down $1,000,000 to a PR firm in California and that he was having a Bill or Act (I'm not a political science major I can't remember what it was exactly - but it was a law he was having passed). Now to get people to vote for this, that's why he put this money up with the PR firm.  I get the call to come onto TV against him.  The FCC had

WILTHELMA ORTIZ WALKER PETTIGREW

http://time.com/70856/wilthelma-ortiz-walker-pettigrew-2014-time-100/   I saw this today - Wilthelma has been named by Time Magazine and Ricky Martin as one of the top 100 "most influential" people of time. I see she "spoke at congress" about her story.  And? . . . .  I went looking for more of her accomplishments.   https://www.linkedin.com/pub/withelma-%22t%22-ortiz-walker-pettigrew/41/192/10b   I found that she's done a lot of "testifying" and "fund raising".  She's in college.  Okay that's good. I applaud her recovery.  If she was in fact trafficked.  I've seen no "proof" she was trafficked.  I looked online and found nothing.  So I question this only because we live in a "catfish" society right now where Samoly Mam also rose to great heights of fame and glory while her story was fake.  No one asked questions.  The same for Bill Hilliar who the movie "Taken" was based on.  He was arrested fo

OPEN LETTER ABOUT THE "NO SUCH THING" CAMPAIGN

Jody Williams www.sexworkersanonymous.com Email – sexworkrecovery@yahoo.com (702) 468-4529 October 29, 2015 Los Angeles Board of Supervisors Sheriff Jim McDonnell McCain Institute California Endowment Re: “No Such Thing” Campaign Hello: An introduction if I may first about who I am to be writing you about this campaign. My name is Jody Williams. If you check the news clips at www.hightechmadam.com you'll see what the news called a “brothel”. In reality, that warehouse was the first safe house for adult sex trafficking victims. The reason it was called a brothel is simple – the world didn't believe sex trafficking was real in 1984. Linda Lovelace had tried to raise awareness about this with her coming forward in 1980. She was denounced loudly and across America as a “liar”. I had stashed a woman there who was escaping her pimp because at that time no treatment center, domestic violence nor homeless shelter would accept a “prostitute”