Trafficking and Prostitution Services

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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.