Trafficking and Prostitution Services

Dear Editor: I'm writing in response to the article  Conor Swanberg did for your publication on pimps and their tattooing of their victims.   http://www.ijreview.com/2015/09/413813-sex-trafficking-survivors-show-brands-pimps-forced-wear/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=video-social-mobile-bar&utm_campaign=Sharing Things are not always what they appear to be to an untrained eye. For example, many detectives used to think a crime scene with candles, pentagrams, and even sacrificed animals were signs of satanic rituals. However, a trained detective knows this is usually instead signs of a drug party by youngster imitating what they "think" is satanic. When it comes to sex trafficking - I should know. I'm the founder of the modern day sex trafficking movement itself. I'm the one who stood up in 1987 on national TV shows, news stations, with reporters, etc., stating that sex trafficking was not an urban myth, that it was re

Ever since the news leaked out that series “8 Minutes” that aired briefly on A&E was “staged” - people have been wondering why.  Why would someone go to all that time, trouble, and money to not just film a series on this subject - and then not want the public to know it was “staged”? When the “yep” guy sued to let us know that some of the storage unit auctions had been rigged - I got it.  The show needed some drama, and storage companies want to see people thinking they’re going to get rich at the auctions.  So I can understand why producers might have planted some stuff in those units to make their show more dramatic.   I mean why not call it a “re-enactment” even like some shows do?  The series was filmed by Relativity Media.  The same company that had some scandal a few years ago over the same thing with the “Gigolo” series.  It was also labeled “reality” and presented to the public an image of what the life of male escorts was like falsely.  I know because I was