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OPEN LETTER TO BRADLEY MYLES OF POLARIS ABOUT PIMPS IN MEXICO

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/01/opinions/sex-trafficking-tenancingo-polaris/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion&iref=obnetwork I read this article today by Bradley Myles of Polaris about how he's "discovered a town where pimps are raised". My first instinct was to call Bradley. Only I know from many many past attempts to communicate with him about this article he won't return my calls or answer my emails. In fact, not one of my attempts have been responded to. Shame. Maybe if he were to consider opening up a dialogue with someone who is not only a survivor of American sex trafficking, but also the founder of the oldest and largest group of recovering survivors of the sex industry he wouldn't be sounding in this article so shocked by what he saw down in Tenancingo, Mexico. Because this sort of thing is not only nothing new – it's the sort of thing that was part of my story and it's going on right now in the United States. Maybe if he wasn't

RECOVERY GUIDE FOR PROSTITUTES ANONYMOUS AKA SEX WORKERS ANONYMOUS

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GROUPS SUPPOSEDLY OUT TO HELP YOU LEAVE THE SEX INDUSTRY

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Where do they get their funding?  Why do they exist?  What do they get out of this work? Sex Workers Anonymous is a 12 step group.  Meaning based on the model of AA and NA.  What this means essentially is Bill Wilson was suffering with a craving to drink at 8 months sobriety.  So he set out to find someone else to "12 step" which was Dr. Bob.  This created Alcoholics Anonymous - reaching out to help another.  12 step groups are not federally funded by grants, nor by private fund raisers, crowdfunding, nor even private donations.  Our funding is only and solely by the sales of our literature, or money passed from the basket.  Now since prostitution is illegal, and receiving money from the "earnings a prostitute" is a felony - we don't pass a basket at our meetings.  This limits our income quite severely.  But why do we reach out to help others?  Because that's how we stay out - pure and simple.  I have been reaching out to help others, who want that help, a

LETTER TO PHYLLIS CHESTER

Phyllis http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/contact.php  - I wanted to write you to thank you once again for the article you wrote about year ages ago.  Honestly, I wanted to apologize also.  I hesitated at first to do the interview at the time you contacted me because frankly I felt like not that many potential members might see the piece. I've always tried to limit our media and outreach work to sources where I thought we would reach potential members - not to become a Samoly Mam figure.  But my "gut" told me to move forward with the interview any way and now years later I've become even more grateful on a whole other level. I haven't really kept you updated - but the trafficking movement i started back in 1984 was "hijacked" not just in my opinion, but also the opinion of the author of the Trafficking Act of 2000 Michael Horowitz.  It got hijacked in 2004 by the faith based community if you read the revisions of the TVRA of 2004 is when all the problems s

MY RESPONSE TO SEXWORKERSANONYMOUS.ORG

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Let's take a real good look at www.sexworkersanonymous.org for a moment shall we and ask yourself "who is being a predator?" Reading the content of the site you see that this person was checking into my legal status, my trademarks, my mailing address, AND EVEN SENT SOMEONE OVER TO "CHECK OUT" MY ADDRESS! Which by the way - this just proved WHY I have a UPS address listed online.   Because crazy people like this who are stalking, threatening, smearing, and who knows what else they might be capable of GO OVER TO CHECK OUT THE ADDRESS!!!  She just showed you WHY I don't list my home address online and why I'd be nuts to do so.  Are they so desperate to bash me they are seriously bashing me for having a UPS box?  Really?  Seriously?  Gee let's just bash me for breathing air guys.   Or how about bashing me for having two feet.  I mean you're getting pretty desperate aren't you here? Now don't you think that when we take women away f