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I came across an article on the career future for Belle Knox. Belle Knox chose a porn career to pay for college. http://www.businessinsider.com/belle-knox-is-remaking-herself-as-a-libertarian-2015-1    To tell you the truth ,  I've been curious about her future myself. I say that not only as a former sex worker whose past included not only being in porn, but also as a former sex worker, and as the founder of the modern day sex trafficking movement in the USA. I'm also curious as someone who runs a 12 step program designed to help people totally leave the sex industry in any form, porn included, and recover from any damage the industry may have done to us. Damage like which even Belle herself has acknowledged she's already suffered to the point of contemplating suicide as many of us do because of the way outside society reacts to us upon learning of our involvement in the sex industry. Depression that hit her once she realized those photos were more than just a job

https://www.nami.org/getattachment/Get-Involved/The-2015-NAMI-National-Convention/Program-Schedule/Convention-Presentation-Slides-and-Resources/Research-Update-PTSD-Dr-Thomas-Neylan.pdf The above is some of the work I've seen published by Dr. Thomas Neylan on PTSD in veterans.  We founded our 12 step program in August of 1987.  We didn't really start attracting in regular members until 1988.  That said, we have been attracting in members that I met in their 20's in the 1980's and we've been growing old together.  I was 27 years old in 1987. People have asked me why I pulled our 1st edition Recovery Guide to update it.  The reason why is this, as I hit my 40's I started having a lot of health problems.  As I'm telling my friends in SWA about these health problems - guess what?  I'm hearing "me too".  Even down to the stroke issue.  I had a stroke in the year 2000 - when I hit 40.  By 2004, I'm on thyroid medication.  I had perfect teeth

Our 12 step program, Sex Workers Anonymous, was actually founded in 1987.  There was nothing before us.  Picture this - we had no model to work from.  No "therapist" would even think of putting his name on a book about a subject like prostitution.  Put into perspective the whole concept of "sex trafficking", i.e., "force" was not recognized by anyone outside of the world of the sex industry.  The sex industry treated sex trafficking back then like the world treated child abuse, rape, and domestic violence.  One just didn't talk about it with "outsiders". To understand the sex industry you have to think in terms of a "family" dynamic.  Now what outsiders don't understand is that "pimping" and "trafficking" are two different things.  In the sex industry there is the "pimp/whore" relationship.  It mirrors pretty much a "father - daughter" dynamic.  The "madam" is a mother figure.

Dear Ms. O'Malley: Lois Lee, founder and director of Children of the Night, and I have known each other since she founded her program in 1979.  In fact, it was because she cut off help at 18 years of age - I had to resort to taking my own steps to help adult trafficking victims in Los Angeles during a time when not only did the world not believe we even existed - but that we were experiencing a record epidemic of serial killers targeting prostitutes of all ages, HIV/AIDS was raging, and the country was being flooded with crack cocaine.  During Iran Contra, and with the south central gangs having suddenly money in truck loads - there was also a related upswing in sex trafficking.   This was why I set up the warehouse spoken of in my arrest in 1984 here at  www.hightechmadam.com   Now granted the whole thing blew up when an angry pimp called the police and claimed it was a brothel.  To try and explain it was not a brothel was difficult because again you have to realize the

Sex Workers Anonymous (Formerly Prostitutes Anonymous www.swanfellowship.webs.com www.leavingtheliferadio.com www.sexworkersanonymous.com (702) 468-4529 Telephone November 10, 2015 Dear Assembly Committee on Public Safety: If I had known about the meeting on human trafficking held on October 20, 2015, I want you to know I would have attended. But I was not invited because I'm assuming people in this field who are aware of who I am also in respect to this field probably think I am still living in Nevada where I've been since 1996. However, because of calls I've been receiving from the members of Sex Workers Anonymous, the 12 step program I founded in 1987 about what they've been seeing happening in California, at their request and urging, I've relocated back home to Los Angeles where our program, and the modern day sex trafficking movement itself, was launched. Basically the members have been wanting me back here to speak and appear for them o